If alcohol is being consumed at your New Year's Eve party, encourage those who will be imbibing to hand over their car keys at the beginning of the night. (Credit: Shutterstock.com)
Hosting a party comes with an intuitive set of to-dos – like planning the menu and (begrudgingly) wiping down the baseboards – but what you really need to include on your pre-party agenda is a little bit of risk mitigation to protect both yourself and your loved ones as you ring in 2023.
|Impaired driving
The National Safety Council estimates as many as 408 people may die on U.S. roadways during the 2023 New Year's Day holiday period (from 6 p.m., December 30, 2022 to 11:59 p.m., Monday, January 2, 2023). During this period in 2020, the NSC reports 49% of roadway fatalities involved an alcohol-impaired driver.
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Brittney Meredith-Miller
Brittney Meredith-Miller is assistant editor of PropertyCasualty360.com. She can be reached at [email protected].
