Video: MADD State Office Now In Smithville

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SMITHVILLE, Miss.(WCBI)–The State MADD Office has a new director and it’s operation is being moved to Smithville. The location might be changing but their anti drunk driving message remains the same.

With a handful of volunteers, mothers against drugged and drunk drivers having packed up all their pictures of accident victims held in the Jackson office, are settling into their new place on Court Street in Smithville.

“Anything that MADD handles. Anything from victims services to court monitoring to victim impact panel. I mean a state office, it will be anything statewide,” said Sherrell Clark/MADD Coordinator.

“Sure, we’ll have a lot more room to do all the things that she needs to do. And it will help keep everything more organized. And there is space to actually get everything done,” said Laura Williams/MADD Volunteer.

Clark knows well the scenarios where family members become fatalities of accidents involving drunk or drugged motorists. In 1988 her brother Marty Cox died at age 18. Then there was the untimely death of her 20 year old daughter Tory Cox Plunkett in April 2006.

“She was three months along in her first pregnancy, my first grand baby. We found out on March 27th we were having two, we were having twins. And 12 days later they were hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. Tory died and of course the babies died,” said Sherrell Clark.

And so from the Smithville office comes the familiar message of the cautious reminders and support to victims of tragic highway crashes.

“If you are old enough and you choose to drink, just don’t drive. If it has a key a motor or steering wheel or tire, don’t care if its a bicycle stay off of it,” said Sherrell Clark.

“And I don’t want to ever see anyone die because of a DUI, a drunk driver,” said Laura Williams.

“From what I’ve experienced, that is the worst thing anybody would ever have to go through on the face of this earth,” said Sherrell Clark.

An official open house dedication is planned at the Smithville office for December 3rd on MADD’s National Day of Remembrance.