U.S.‚ there are also many negative consequences. It has become very difficult to monitor the legal drinking age of 21‚ and as a result minors are gaining access to alcohol and drinking much earlier in life than they should be. Another significant problem is that not only do minors drink irresponsibly‚ but many adults as well. One of the biggest problems related to irresponsible drinking is driving while intoxicated (DWI). Fatality rates related to DWI’s are astronomical. According to the data compiled
Premium Alcohol law Blood alcohol content Drunk driving
Everyone is drinking and having a good time. Your are going to leave and go home‚ but you friends won’t let you because they know the dangers of driving after having a few drinks. Instead they ca ll a cab to give you a ride home. You would be extremely lucky to have such smart friends. Drunk driving is a very serious problem in our society today‚ but it is becomming socially unacceptable causing the numbers of alcohol related traffic fatalites t o decline considerably. Drunk driving can be very
Premium Alcoholic beverage Alcoholism Alcohol
Drinking and driving (stress on body and mind) If you love your life‚ you would never drink and drive. It is very interesting how human beings ignore the simple rules that end up costing their lives or their money. Every injury and death caused by drunk driving is completely preventable. This phenomenon of alcohol-impaired driving has remained to be an international problem that affects many people each year. Drinking alcohol has resulted to an increase in the number of orphans and single parents
Premium Blood alcohol content Alcoholic beverage Alcohol
Drinking and driving has become the leading cause of deaths in today’s society. Each year the amount of people engaging in drunk driving increases greatly. Young teens to adults as well partake in the consumption of alcohol. Alcohol takes a toll on the human brain to cause people to make immoral decisions. Not only is this affecting yourself but the innocent people around you. Driving drunk can lead to serious penalties. Every day we see and hear terrible tragedies about the loss of loved ones
Premium Alcohol law Alcoholic beverage Drunk driving
influencing factors that are able to shape our attitudes and beliefs towards driving. The media‚ family‚ and peers are all major contributing factors that have positioned me to believe that drink driving and speeding is wrong and that you must always wear a seatbelt when driving in a car. The media‚ has proven to be one of the most prominent factors in the shapeing of attitudes and beliefs towards many things‚ including driving and our cautiousness on the roads. Campaigns are enforced to raise our
Premium Automobile Driving Advertising
Did you know drunk driving is the Nation s most frequently committed violent crime? About three in every five Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. It s a scary thought isn t it? Drunk driving takes the life of a person approximately every thirty seconds. Those injured and killed in drunk driving collisions are not accident victims. The crashes caused by impaired drivers involve two choices: to drink AND to drive. The injuries and deaths sustained each
Premium Mothers Against Drunk Driving Criminal law Alcoholic beverage
The use of cellphone while driving Informative speech Specific purpose: to inform my audience about the risks that are involved while using their cellphone while driving and its penalties. Thesis: Using a cellphone while on the road could be risky. Organizational pattern: Topical order. INTRODUCTION: I. Attention Getter: ‘’Using a cellphone while driving‚ whether it is handheld or hands-free‚ delays drivers reactions as much as having blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit
Free Mobile phone
Ok but for the first intro paragraph does this sound good ? ; imagine that one bad decision you made took away an innocent persons life ‚ How would you feel ? It’s never ok to drunk drive. Drunk driving is a crime of driving a vehicle with a large amount of alcohol in your blood stream. Drunk driving could lead to many deaths. It’s is also dangerous because it slows down the drivers brain cause them to take risks. That’s all I got is it good ???? Therefor it’s bad to drink and drive many deaths
Premium English-language films Alcoholic beverage Blood
People all around the world drink and they also drive. But driving under the influence of alcohol is a very dangerous‚ risk taking thing to do‚ not just to the drivers‚ but to the passengers and pedestrians as well. When people consume alcohol‚ their normal functioning of the brain impairs‚ thus increasing the chances of having a fatal accident when chosen to drive. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration‚ 40% of the car accidents in the year 2002 were alcohol related in US. That
Premium Blood alcohol content Tram accident Ethanol
The Problems Of Drinking And Driving Harman Singh Gahir Roll Number August 09 2010 On the night of May 14‚ 1988‚ Larry Mahoney was drunk‚ so drunk that his blood-alcohol concentration—the percentage of alcohol in his blood—was more than twice Kentucky’s legal limit at the time of .10 percent. Regardless‚ Mahoney got behind the wheel of his pickup truck and proceeded to drive northbound in the southbound lane of Interstate 71 near Carrollton‚ Kentucky‚ crashing head-on into a church bus returning
Premium Blood alcohol content Alcohol law Drunk driving