Drunk Driving Death “Every 53 minutes a life is lost in the United States because of drunk driving accidents; that equals to 27 people every day. On average‚ a drunk driver will drive 80 times under the influence before their first arrest” (“11 Facts About…” 1). Drunk driving is the second cause of car accidents in the US. Texting and driving takes the number one cause of accidents in the United States. Many people have died from drinking and driving. They could have called someone to take
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Driving intoxicated impacts thousands of peoples lifes every year. Driving drunk costs the United States 132 billion dollars a year. It costs on average per United States citizen 500 dollars a year. Drinking and driving can be preventable. Almost every 90 seconds a person is injured by a drunk driving accident. You can even prevent it today. High Schoolers today that use alcohol or other substances are 5 times more likely to drop out of highschool. Children who start drinking young
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I Made it Home” “Should she be driving right now?” I heard come from the back seat of my car‚ as me and some friends were on our way home from a concert. I only had a few drinks‚ I was fine‚ I remember thinking. I didn’t know my life was about to change in a way I never would have expected. When I arrived home and walked into my house that night‚ I heard my little sister yell from the couch “did you get the call?” She told me that my grandpa was hit by a drunk driver and was taken to Hennepin
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Drinking and driving Almost every day 30 people in the U.S die because of drunk driving. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. Driving under the influence of alcohol was associated with age in 2010‚ the rate was highest among people aged 21 to 25 (23.4 percent). An estimated 5.8 percent of 16 or 17 year olds and 15.1 percent of 18 to 20 year olds reported driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year. Beyond age 25‚ these rates showed a general decline with increasing age. One
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Drinking and Driving Drunk driving is considered a serious crime in every state. It is wrong‚ irresponsible and wastes many lives. People who abuse alcohol hurt everyone around them‚ endanger public safety‚ and create chaos on the nation’s highways. There is nothing positive that can come out of drunk driving‚ so why do people do it? It is society’s job to punish these people and try to take control of this “out of control” issue. America doesn’t want to watch quietly as hundreds of people are killed
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and engage in more harmful activities‚ like drunk driving. Although surveys have documented a decline in recent years‚ consumption rates remain highest from late teen years to the late twenties. Despite the long-term decline since 1982 in alcohol related traffic deaths‚ a 4 percent increase occurred between 1994 and 1995 among young adults of the age 21 and over. As alcohol impaired driving persists‚ The biggest problem with drunk driving by young adults is the high rate of traffic accidents
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Driving under the influence‚ driving while intoxicated‚ drunken driving‚ drunk driving‚ drink driving‚ operating under the influence‚ drinking and driving‚ or impaired driving is the act of driving a motor vehicle with blood levels of alcohol in excess of a legal limit . Similar regulations cover driving or operating certain types of machinery while affected by drinking alcohol or taking other drugs‚ including‚ but not limited to prescription drugs. This is a criminal offense in most countries.
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Should Drunk Drivers be Imprisoned on Their First Offense? There are many accidents that occur because of drunk drivers. Many people lose their lives because people aren’t responsible when they drink. They think that they are “just fine” and can drive‚ but in reality once they’ve had a drink they shouldn’t be behind a wheel. It is a fact that on average one person is killed by a drunk driver every forty minutes. While being intoxicated signals on the road can be missed or read wrong. Drunk drivers
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Neha Reddy Informative Speech On the night of May 14‚ 1988‚ Larry Mahoney was drunk‚ so drunk that his blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) was more than twice Kentucky’s legal limit. Regardless‚ Mahoney got behind the wheel of his pickup truck and proceeded to drive northbound in the southbound lane of Interstate 71‚ crashing head-on into a church bus returning from an amusement park. The collision ruptured the bus’s gas tank‚ causing a fire that killed twenty-three children and four
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