Association against alcohol and drugs in road traffic
The Federation against Alcohol and Drugs in Road Traffic e. V. (BADS) is a non-profit association with the goals of traffic education and awareness as well as research support in the field of traffic safety .
Fields of activity
The association has set itself the ultimate goal of eliminating alcohol and drugs in road traffic . In its work, the association does not have any general traffic-educational problem areas in mind, only the role of alcohol and drugs. The BADS provides information about the dangers of alcohol and drugs in road traffic, especially through lectures and the publication of pamphlets. He also organizes scientific conferences and promotes research projects on the subject as far as possible. The journal Blutalkohol is published by the association and distributed free of charge to forensic institutes, courts and public prosecutorssubmitted. The association works in partnership with authorities and the police.
Transport policy goals
The association demands that the public purse provide more funds for road safety, which should be used for traffic education and clarification and increased traffic monitoring. According to the association to traffic law in the legal take more account of higher education. In addition, the BADS demands that exceeding the 0.5-per-mille limit for the alcohol content in the blood when driving vehicles be made a criminal offense , and not, as before, just prosecuted as an administrative offense .
financing
The association receives from the local courts whose Uncollected fines to a considerable extent (annual 1.3 million euros). In addition, the association is supported by membership fees and the publication of the journal Blutalkohol with federal funds.
history
Lothar Danner initiated the founding of the association in 1950 under the name Bund für alcohol-free traffic ; from 1962 the association was called Bund against alcohol in road traffic ; it has had its current name since 1998. The journal Blutalkohol has been published since 1961; its medical editor was Joachim Gerchow for the first forty years . Since 1975 the association has awarded the Senator Lothar Danner Medal every year for services in the fight against alcohol and drugs in traffic.
Criticism of the club
The association is largely supported by lawyers and receives fines from judges who are members of the association, in 1970, according to Spiegel, up to 70%. Lectures by judges and other lawyers for the association are financed by these fines. The association had already come into the nationwide limelight in 1972 as part of the Hamburg fine affair .
Cooperation with other organizations and membership in associations
- Institutes for forensic medicine send experts to events of the association,
- the DEKRA supports events of the association with current information,
- the association is a member and represented on the board of the German Road Safety Council ,
- the president of the association is a member of the advisory board of Deutsche Verkehrswacht .
President
- 1950–1960 Lothar Danner
- 1960–1969 August Detlev Sommerkamp , known from the television series Das Fernsehgericht meets
- 1970–1984 Horst Schneble
- 1985–1999 Hans Hunecke
- 1999-2008 Erwin Grosse
- 2009–2019 Peter Gerhardt
- since 2019 Helmut Trentmann
Web links
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- ↑ The Senator for the Interior and Sport: “STAY COOL - DRIVE SOBER” ; last viewed on Feb. 26, 2009.
- ↑ a b Suspicion of partisanship and nepotism when fines are awarded. In: report Mainz. March 4, 2014, accessed March 4, 2014 .
- ↑ on nepotism and partisanship , last accessed on March 4, 2014.
- ↑ source developed. In: Der Spiegel (printed edition of January 17, 1972). January 17, 1972, accessed March 31, 2014 .