Bradford Health Services Offering Free Ride Home to Impaired Drivers

If you are out making a little too merry on New Year’s Eve, Bradford Health Services is offering a safe way to get back to your warm bed that will cost you nothing.

Bradford Health Service is offering a free ride home to make it safer for everyone on the road. Staff and patrons at restaurants, bars and lounges may call for any impaired driver. The service is available through Jan. 1 for adults 21 and over. The free ride will be provided within a 30-mile radius of Chattanooga.

For further information on this program please call Bradford at 423-892-2639.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.