Driving under the influence of alcohol has affected and devastated countless people’s lives. Driving under the influence is one of the most dangerous situations you can put yourself or someone else into. If you drink and drive‚ not only do you possibly put yourself at risk but your passengers‚ as well as other people on the roads too. “Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for teens‚ and roughly 1/3 of these accidents involve alcohol or another substance.”(DoSomething.org) These victims
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drinking with driving established a powerful link through which MADD and other groups were able to create and impose their definition of the problem . Like other policies ‚ the process of problem definition creates a social construction of the targeted groups ‚ helping us to understand which policy tools will be adopted Introduction Drunk driving is a primary cause of highway traffic accidents causing deaths and injuries with enormous monetary costs to society . The drunk driving was first recognized
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Academic Writing Task Assignment 1 Q2 “drink-driving” Student number: 12016039 Group: A7 Name: Wang Xiaoyu (Tony) At the moment‚ more and more people are killed in the UK each year as a result of drink-driving. So people think the law about drink-driving in UK can’t enough to control people. According to the new about drink-driving that a princess consort who named Diana was killed in accident. This is because of her driver who is named Paul fast driving after drinking. The purpose of this essay
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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 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)‚ in 1990 alone‚ 20‚083 people were killed as a result of alcohol related crashes. In 1995‚ fatalities were still estimated at about 17‚274. In 1998‚ DWI related death rates still amounted to 15‚936 (“Drunk Driving‚” n.d.). Although these numbers did decrease slightly each
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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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Professor Ellis Driving for many teenagers is there first passage to freedom‚ nothing is more exciting to many teens than becoming the legal age to drive. In the United States‚ most states legal age limits are set somewhere between 15 to 17 yrs old‚ each state having there own licensing process often with some type of probationary period before teens can obtain a full license. Recently law makers in Florida‚ Georgia‚ Delaware‚ Illinois‚ and Massachusetts have debated raising the legal driving age. Many
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at 16”(Applying). This is a fairly young age and may not be the best‚ because teenage driving causes lots of accidents and deaths. Currently‚ there is lots of debate surrounding whether the minimum age to get a driver’s license should increase or not. One major piece of evidence answers this question‚ which is that car accidents are “the number one cause of death in teens”(Gregory). This shows that teenage driving is a big problem which is why something needs to change. Due to car accidents being the
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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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reasons‚ the driving age should be raised to 18‚ Safety and financial problems will get better. The first reason should be because financi the driving be raised to 18 years old is because teenagers have more capacity to understand the responsibility of driving. In the United States at the age of 18 teenagers are graduating from High School. It seems that the more mature they are show better judgments while driving rather than expose themselves to injuries. According to the teen driving statistics
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Ashlynn Smith Mrs.Nowlin 3A November 8‚ 2012 Drunk Driving Every year thousands of people die from drunk driving. Some survive a car accident‚ but others aren’t so lucky. Drunk drivers should have more punishments than what we have today. It would make the roads a lot safer if we had more cops out‚ make the blood alcohol level lower than it is now‚ and make the punishments stricter. This would of professional cops and law enforcements are highly trained‚ competent professionals
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