Cause and Effect on Drinking and Driving Everest University Online Composition / Prof. Waller Drinking and driving is a very bad combination. Mixing the two would be very deadly for many people on the streets. Drinking reduces your concentration and your reactions to sudden hazards which can lead to fatal accidents or severe injury. You should not drink while under the influence as it can put yourself and others in danger. This can all be prevented by making smarter decisions. If you choose
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your motor neurons and cerebral cortex. Damage of your frontal lobe‚ means every good judgement is instantly thrown out of the window. “A drunk driver with executive dysfunction may not be able anticipate and plan for the future‚ making the associated decisions‚” explained Ester M. Nakamura‚ at the Federal University of Espirito Santo in Brazil. Impaired drivers may be unable to solve problems‚ even simple ones‚ and have difficulties focusing their attention or concentrating on something. The damage
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is impaired driving an issue and why should you care? You are only as safe as the other drivers on the road. If there was an impaired driver on the road that was distracted and‚ for example‚ ran a red light‚ and you were the car who was just following the rules and going through a green light‚ and they hit you‚ you are now hurt and have to deal with this issue. Impaired driving does not just affect the driver who is impaired but also others who are on the road as well. Impaired driving is a very
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in America‚ 69% of drivers aged 18 to 64 admit to using a handheld device while driving in previous months compared to 29% in the United Kingdom and 59% in Portugal (Helbock‚ 2015). Currently in America 45 out of 50 states each have passed laws to prohibit distracted driving. Each state sets its own regulations such as 14 states and the District of Columbia (DOC) prohibiting all the drivers from the use of handheld devices‚ 38 states and DOC bans handheld use for novice drivers‚ and 45 states and
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which states‚ "seriousness of a crime has two dimensions: harm and culpability" (Husak‚ 57). Husak argues that the same harms caused by drunk drivers can also be caused by sober drivers; therefore driving drunk is no more serious than driving sober‚ from the harm standpoint. When it comes to culpability‚ Husak first considers Steinbock’s argument that drunk drivers exhibit gross recklessness‚ which Husak‚ quoting Ibid‚ is "defined to include six elements: a defendant must (1) consciously (2) disregard
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while under the influence everyday. Drivers who are drunk are blamed for the loss of as many as twentyfive thousand lives in highway crashes each year and hundreds of thousands of severe injurys. It is thought that drunk drivers have a long history of doing this and many prior arrests. In addition‚ most of those killed are just innocent victims whose behavior did not contibute to their deaths. These last two statements are both false. On aver age a drunk driver that kills has never been involved
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Unconstitutional DUI Roadblocks I. INTRODUCTION A. (Attention Statement) Have you ever wondered why police can stop you at a DUI roadblock‚ or a “Sobriety Checkpoint”? B. (Thesis) Roadblocks used to identify drunk drivers are unconstitutional and ineffective and should be removed. C. (Significance to Audience/Credibility) According to a study conducted by the National Hard Core Drunk Driving Project in 2002‚ thirty nine states‚ including Pennsylvania
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billion. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ “ Impaired Driving: Get the Facts”). 4. An average drunk driver will drive drunk 87 times before being pulled over. (Word Press‚ “Statistics”). B. Satisfaction: We all need to actively help prevent drunk driving. 1. Plan ahead. a. Put money aside for a taxi. b. Have a designated driver. c. Have a back up designated driver. 2. Never let anyone drive drunk. a. Offer to drive them home. b. Offer to get them a taxi. c
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The car hit her with so much force‚ that it knocked her out of her shoes and sent her 125 feet away (“Candy Lightner”). Lightner later found out that Cari was hit by a drunk driver who not once stopped after hitting Cari and was most likely to receive little punishment. The driver was Clarence William Busch. He had four previous drunk driving convictions‚ only spent forty-eight hours in jail for the death of Cari‚ and had another hit-and-run incident just two days before Cari’s
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person is using his/her phone at the same time‚ it is a lethal distraction. Cynthia‚ shared her tragic story with the public to help people realize what texting and driving has the power to do. Her son was waiting to turn left at a red light and the driver who hit them was texting and not paying attention. Cynthia later lost her son to this tragic accident (“Texting and Driving Stories”). Distracted driving accidents happen every day to innocent people. Over 3‚000 deaths take place per year to this
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