AAA President and CEO to Speak at Detroit Economic Club March 8

AAA President to Focus on Traffic Crashes as Public Health Threat

WHAT: Robert L. Darbelnet, President/Chief Executive Officer of AAA, the nation's largest organization for motorists, with more than 46 million members, will be the speaker at the Detroit Economic Club luncheon Monday, March 8.

Darbelnet's speech, titled "The Highway Crash Epidemic: Condition Critical," will tie in to the topic "Safe Roads," the World Health Organization's theme for this year's World Health Day, to be celebrated April 7. Darbelnet's remarks will focus on traffic crashes as a serious public health problem that kills nearly 43,000 people annually in the United States alone.

Darbelnet has spent his entire career with AAA/CAA starting as an emergency road service driver for the Quebec Automobile Club. He served 11 years as CEO of that club prior to being named AAA president and CEO and moving to the federation's headquarters in Heathrow, Fla. Darbelnet is a graduate of Sainte-Foy College in Quebec and earned a bachelor's degree in law from Laval University in Quebec.

  WHEN:    Monday, March 8
           Luncheon begins at Noon (EST)
           Remarks begin at 12:30 p.m. (EST)
           Press Conference begins at 1:30 p.m. (EST)

  WHERE:   Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dearborn, MI
           Off Michigan Avenue West of the Southfield Freeway

PRNewswire -- Feb. 25