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AAA Texas Offers Free Tipsy Tow Service for Christmas - New Year's Holiday; Anti-Drinking and Driving Statewide Campaign

IRVING, Texas--Dec. 21, 2004--AAA Texas is offering its free Tipsy Tow service to drivers who drink during the Christmas - New Year's holiday. The service gets underway at 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 24, 2004 and wraps up at midnight, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005.

The Tipsy Tow program, now in its 18th year, is designed to provide drivers with a way to get home safely if they have been drinking. The first ten miles are free.

Here is how it works:

-- Drivers, holiday hosts and bartenders dial AAA Texas' toll free number at 1-800-AAA-HELP or 1-800-222-4357 to request Tipsy Tow service.

-- AAA Texas dispatches a tow truck and;

-- The driver is driven -- and the vehicle towed -- home for free up to 10 miles. (up to 2 people can ride in the tow truck)

Callers need to keep in mind that the service is restricted to the driver's residence. Drivers can expect to pay the rate charged by the tow truck contractor for rides farther than ten miles.

"More than five million Texans are expected to travel for the Christmas-New Year's holiday, with 86 percent of those driving to their destination," said Rose Rougeau, spokesperson for AAA Texas. "In an effort to keep the roadways safe, we encourage motorists who plan on celebrating with alcohol to please make sure they have a designated driver or to utilize our Tipsy Tow service."

Tipsy Tow is a statewide service that is being offered in Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, the Greater Houston area, and San Antonio.

AAA Texas, an affiliate of AAA National, has been serving Texans since 1902. Today, more than a million AAA Texas members benefit from the organization's roadside assistance service, travel agency, financial products, insurance products and services, automotive pricing, buying and financing, trip planning services, and traffic safety programs. Information about these products and services is available on AAA Texas' Web site at www.aaa-texas.com.