Drunk Driving
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 out of 10 children ages 12 and 13 uses alcohol at least once a month. In a single year, 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated, 70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol and 60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related. You do the rest of the math. DRINKING AND DRIVING KILLS. Sure there are laws on driving drunk, and even though the percentage lowered ever since then it still hasn't completely stopped it yet. There are also many programs trying to help and stop kids from drunk driving. A few of them are called Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD), Students against Drunk Driving (SADD), and Doctors for Designated Drivers (DFDD). The MADD’s initiative was started in 1980 with goals to stop drunk driving, support the victims of drunk driving crimes, and prevent underage drinking. Over the years, the organization has expanded its work greatly, especially in the area of preventing underage drinking. Since the group’s inception, MADD has helped pass thousands of anti-drunk driving laws and made the use of designated drivers acceptable amongst mainstream society. The SADD is an organization is a peer-to-peer education program that aims to prevent alcohol use and abuse in the United States. The goal is to give students the best prevention and intervention tools possible so that they can intelligently deal with common issues, such as underage drinking and other drug usage, as well as impaired driving and related destructive
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 out of 10 children ages 12 and 13 uses alcohol at least once a month. In a single year, 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated, 70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol and 60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related. You do the rest of the math. DRINKING AND DRIVING KILLS. Sure there are laws on driving drunk, and even though the percentage lowered ever since then it still hasn't completely stopped it yet. There are also many programs trying to help and stop kids from drunk driving. A few of them are called Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD), Students against Drunk Driving (SADD), and Doctors for Designated Drivers (DFDD). The MADD’s initiative was started in 1980 with goals to stop drunk driving, support the victims of drunk driving crimes, and prevent underage drinking. Over the years, the organization has expanded its work greatly, especially in the area of preventing underage drinking. Since the group’s inception, MADD has helped pass thousands of anti-drunk driving laws and made the use of designated drivers acceptable amongst mainstream society. The SADD is an organization is a peer-to-peer education program that aims to prevent alcohol use and abuse in the United States. The goal is to give students the best prevention and intervention tools possible so that they can intelligently deal with common issues, such as underage drinking and other drug usage, as well as impaired driving and related destructive