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SALT LAKE CITY — It just got easier to find and select a sober ride home from your winter holiday plans.
A number of bars and restaurants across Salt Lake will have a QR code posted that will give a person $10 off their next Uber ride, it was announced Thursday. That QR code will take you to a page where you will fill out your name, email address and other information.
Moreover, WCF Insurance is sponsoring 2,500 of the $10 Uber credit vouchers — that's 2,500 rides which can be made safer.
It's part of an initiative by the Utah Department of Public Safety to make sure people get home at all, after 50 people and counting have already lost their lives because of impaired driving this year.
"When drinking starts, judgment is impaired. Decision-making is impaired. Risk avoidance is impaired," Utah Highway Patrol Col. Michael Rapich. "Bottom line is after someone starts drinking, their ability to make really good decisions is impaired to some degree."
The UHP also partnered with the Highway Safety Office to fund over 240 highway sobriety checkpoints and enforcement shifts from over 30 agencies throughout Utah this holiday season.
