looked at is research conducted about mother against drunk driving. This research helps with answering the question because mothers against drunk driving is an organization that doesn’t not have specific group of people that support this organization and by looking at this research I can figure out a more detailed answer. The research indicates that people who support MADD are mostly young adults and people who have been affected by drunk driving. The research also shows that 49% percent of the population
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Driving is fun‚ but drinking and driving is not! Hundreds of people are killed and thousands are injured every year in an accident with a drunk driver. This issue doesn’t only affect the victim itself‚ but the families‚ loved ones and communities as well. Drunk driving amongst teens is a serious issue‚ and is growing by the minute. Drunk driving is somebody’s choice or somebody’s authorization to get behind the wheel when they are clearly impaired. The scars from a drunk driving accident take an
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The day I crashed my car… okay I didn’t actually crash it. But I don’t think that I have ever been so petrified seeing a powder blue prius about to rear-end me. Little me‚ little 4”11’‚ 112 pounds Katie Long was about to start driving. I get lost at the mall‚ the mall. So as you can assume‚ my parents are shaking in their boots. Having an older brother I’ve been through the ‘learning how to drive’ situation. You could say I’m immune to it‚ or so I thought. Here I am‚ going into my sophomore
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your parents or friends to drive you everywhere‚ Getting your driver’s license is seen as a milestone in every teenager’s life‚ and is something that most everyone looks forward to in their lives. This was a different story for me. The thought of driving absolutely terrified me. The thought of controlling a 2 ton vehicle going at a very fast speed on a busy road among other large heavy vehicles made me sweat. But‚ in order to be granted this passage into freedom‚ learning how to drive a car was something
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Whether you have been in a car with a drunk driver or you have been the drunk driver. Whether you injured someone because of drink driving. Whether someone lost their life because of your drink driving. Whether you were injured because of a drunk driver‚ or you know someone who lost their life because of a drunk driver‚ I imagine the feeling to be pretty horrific. My grandfather was killed in a car accident that had nothing to do with drink driving. What if you lost someone because of something so
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What’s drunk driving among teens and what happens? Drunk driving is when someone drinks a beverage with alcohol in it and they get behind the wheel to drive a motorized vehicle. A 16 year old driving drunk is the same as a 35 year old driving drunk. The only difference is that the 16 year old is underage and is breaking the law by not being at legal age. Alcohol is illegal to individuals who are under the age of 21. All 50 states have a law against drinking under 21 because individuals younger
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)‚ formerly Mothers Against Drunk Drivers‚ is a Texas-based nonprofit organization that fights drunk driving‚ underage drinking and assists the victims of drunk driving and their families. History The organization was founded in 1980 by Candace Lightner‚ whose 13 year old daughter was killed by a hit and run drunk driver in California. The driver was a repeat offender‚ and the sentence handed down outraged Lightner. She formed
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Argumentative Driving Age There have been 1‚348 fewer deadly crashes involving 16-year-old drivers‚on the other hand in a year there were 4‚358 deaths of teens under 21 from alcohol use.The government should not raise the minimum driving age.Driving makes teens more responsible and makes them more focused.Some people say that it should stay the same for many reasons one being that teens are not responsible enough. If we lowered the driving age it would help make teens more responsible and experienced
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Theories Help Explain Drunk Driving Taylor Forté February 5‚ 2014 HDFS 2400 University of Missouri Fall 2013 ID: 333795 and Keycode: 2476 Theories Help Explain Drunk Driving Driving while intoxicated persists to be a major problem amongst teenage drivers. Although there are many precautions taken in order to prevent this type of activity‚ whether by the school‚ media or parents’‚ teens proceed to place themselves into these very high risk situations. These persistent
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On May 3‚ 1980 Candy Lightner lost her 13 year old daughter‚ Cari Lightner‚ when a drunk driver stuck Cari and killed her tragically. Clarence Bush was the man behind the wheel and Candy Lightner had come to learn that he had a grocery list of arrests for intoxication. Unfortunately‚ the police officer working on the Cari Lightner case informed Candy that drunk drivers were not prosecuted harshly and Clarenece Busch would unlikely be thrown in jail for his heinous crime (he was eventually founded
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