Drunk Driving Despite many efforts to reduce drunk driving‚ it continues to be a problem in the United States. About 10‚000 people die in the United States each year due to drunk driving. In the article Drunk Driving: Why Is MADD Among Critics of Lower Alcohol Limit?‚ NTSB chair Deborah Hersman said in a statement "Most Americans think that we’ve solved the problem of impaired driving‚ but in fact‚ it’s still a national epidemic‚" The drinking age has been raised to 21‚ and the legal limit was
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and driving. When someone is under the influence of alcohol they really don’t know the right choices from the wrong ones. More times then not those people make the wrong choice to get behind the wheel of a car. Just because someone is drunk doesn’t mean its an automatic thing that they will crash but it does increase the chances by quite a bit. No matter what age you are‚ a new licensed driver being 16 to an elderly man being 80‚ this is always going to be bad and frowned upon by anyone. Drunk driving
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Drunk Driving Penalty Every day 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes on average and 20% of Child Passenger Deaths are Due to Drunk Driving Crashes. Drunk driving is the 15th leading cause of death in the united states today 19 percent of those deaths belong to children between the ages 0 to 14. The drinking while intoxicated penalty should be increased because tons of deaths have been caused by DUI‚ many drunk drivers are repeat offenders‚ and with technology in the 21st century
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Cause and Affect Essay: Drunk Driving 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. “MADD estimated that there are between 1‚350 and 1‚600 impaired crash fatalities in Canada each year.” This meaning that there are an approximate of 1‚450 lives stolen to drunk driving that can be saved if one person
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consequences‚ and engage in more harmful activities‚ specifically drunk driving. Although surveys have documented a decline in recent years‚ consumption rates remain highest from late teen years to the late twenties (Johnston1-3). Despite the long-term decline since 1982 in alcohol related traffic deaths‚ a 4 percent increase occurred between 1994 and 1995 among young adults age 21 and over (Hingson 4). As alcohol-impaired driving persists‚ legal and community initiatives intervene to help reduce
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lives by driving when they are under the influence of alcohol. The Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was established to help victims of those who were affected by individuals driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. MADD became in effect on September 5‚ 1980 (MADD 2014). The official website the organization uses is www.madd.org. MADD wants to help families who lost a loved one to drunk driving. The organization also works to help educate people and make them aware of how drunk driving has
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Tiarra Harris Teen Driving Issue Project Drunk Driving Why is this a problem‚ especially for teen drivers? Drunk driving is hazardous to teen drivers‚ passengers and innocent people on the road. Drinking alcohol and trying to drive isn’t a good mixture you can injure someone else badly and be sent to jail‚ pass out on the wheel‚ not see correctly due to being dizzy because your wasted and you also kill yourself. 211 children students were killed in drunk driving crashes in 2010. Of those
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Eliminating Drunk Drivers Drunk drivers are responsible for a large portion of alcohol-related crashes‚ injuries and fatalities. It is essential to identify people who are at risk of driving drunk to remove them from a situation that could cause harm to themselves or others. Offering treatment and altering the negative behavior can help these people be rehabilitated so they will not drive drunk (Hanson‚ 2012). About half of the alcohol-related accident-related fatalities involved people driving with
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Drunk drivers have caused over ten thousand deaths every year. Drinking and driving is also a big deal‚ because of how it puts innocent people at risk every day. This issue can also affect the next generation of new drivers too. So since drunk driving has caused many deaths‚ and continues to happen‚ it is an issue that clearly needs to be addressed so it can be stopped. Defining and Background: To be considered a drunk driver all that it takes is to be driving while succeeding the alcohol limit
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significantly increased. Reckless driving is seen everyday and is ultimately the cause of road accidents. These drivers not only put their lives in danger they also put lives of every other innocent body in danger. So how can we prevent such things from reoccurring? Well to answer that question we can become more knowledgeable about reckless driving. According to the article “ The 9 Most Dangerous Things Drivers Do”‚ the number one bad habit we do while driving is driving under the influence of alcohol
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