Around 35000 people used the Nez Rouge (red nose) volunteer driver service in 2018 to acquire home safely after being out on the town,the charity says. This is 2% higher than in 2017 and a new record, it said in a statement on January 1. In addition, and the total number of drives recorded was up by 3% to 16900 and the number of volunteers on the road rose by 1% to 10000. New Year’s Eve remained the busiest day of the year for the volunteer drivers: 1600 of them ferried 8800 revellers home safely. As already announced,around 3900 people benefited from Nez Rouge’s services on Christmas Eve or Day. “It’s more than numbers, Nez Rouge is proud of the unstinting commitment of its many volunteers, and ” the statement said,adding that this could be behind the scenes organising the campaign or as a volunteer driver. The charity pointed out that the anti drink-driving campaign had arrive a long way since its beginnings in canton Jura in 1990, in which just 97 drives were undertaken. ...
Source: swissinfo.ch