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An attorney, McCarthy served in the California state Assembly, and then the state Senate. When he was just 37, McCarthy was named the director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles by Gov. Edmund "Pat" Brown in 1958 with the mandate to implement a "get-tough policy" to reduce the carnage on California highways. McCarthy took that mandate seriously, instituting a number of reforms, including one-year license suspensions for drivers who caused fatal accidents, and six-month license suspensions for drunk drivers. The result: traffic fatalities dropped 10 percent statewide within just seven months. The policies survived court challenges, but a number of well-connected and powerful people lost their licenses in the crackdown, and Gov. Brown retreated from his support of the measures and signed a new law to remove the power from the DMV to suspend licenses unless it received a court order. McCarthy resigned in disgust, calling the Brown administration "spineless", and went back to private practice as an attorney. He died November 29 from pneumonia at age 86. From This is True for 2 December 2007 Suggestions for further reading:
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On a typical weekend in America, one teenager dies in a car crash every hour. Almost half of the crashes involve alcohol. This book, and the accompanying DVD of the Parents’ Choice award–winning HBO documentary Smashed: Toxic Tales of Teens and Alcohol, aim to help parents talk to their teen about drinking and driving by challenging the “It can’t happen to me” myth. Safe Road Home takes a brutally honest look at this subject, featuring detailed advice, new research, and safe-driving tips from leading experts. For parents and teens alike, the book also includes quizzes, solutions to everyday scenarios, a Smashed viewing guide, and true stories about teens who survived alcohol-related crashes—and some who did not.
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon are a husband-and-wife documentary filmmaking team. Three-time Academy Award® nominees, their films for HBO, PBS, and National Geographic have also won numerous Emmy® Awards and have been screened at film festivals worldwide, from Sundance to Berlin. They are both active members of the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Their production entity, the Simon & Goodman Picture Company, is based in New York City, where they live with their two children. |
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