Drunk Driving Death “Every 53 minutes a life is lost in the United States because of drunk driving accidents; that equals to 27 people every day. On average‚ a drunk driver will drive 80 times under the influence before their first arrest” (“11 Facts About…” 1). Drunk driving is the second cause of car accidents in the US. Texting and driving takes the number one cause of accidents in the United States. Many people have died from drinking and driving. They could have called someone to take
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While alcohol and prescription opiates are the most common causes of a Driving While Intoxicated charge‚ the law actually makes it illegal to drive while under the influence of any substance that might impede your ability to operate your vehicle and therefore pose a danger to others. Bretzmann Law Offices‚ DUI and DWI attorneys in High Point‚ NC‚ explain that even Ambien‚ a popular prescription sleep aid‚ can result in criminal charges and steep penalties. Ambien and other powerful medications like
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Reckless Driving Cars invention helped to satisfy people need for transportation. Although‚ driving defensively is the global demand for using cars‚ still there are some drivers practicing different kinds of reckless driving behaviors on the streets. Reckless driving is a kind of behavior that you will eventually regret. There are so many effects caused by reckless driving. This paper will discuss three of them‚ loosing vehicle control‚ violating traffic law and involving in an accident.
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Fatalities From Distracted Driving in the United States‚ 1999 to 2008." American Journal of Public Health 100.11 (2010): 2213-2219. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. Fernando A. Wilson and Jim P. Stimpson focus on the trends of distracted drivers and their relation to cell phone use. They give records data and statistics on all road fatalities on U.S. Roads from 1998 to 2008 from The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). They include trends in driving fatalities due to distracted
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Texting While Driving Did you know that in 2011 23% of auto collisions involved cell phones? That is 1.3 MILLION crashes (D7 R.W). Cell phones are huge distractions and are especially dangerous on the road. Being in a huge‚ fast‚ and solid peice of metal‚ you don’t need any distractions. I’m Renae and this is Karli. I would like for you to think before picking up that phone in the car. One of the big obvious reasons is that it is extremely dangerous (2C R.W) and nearly 500‚00 people are injured
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Texting and Driving Texting has become a daily thing‚ it’s quicker than a phone call and it’s easy to keep in touch with everybody. But with texting‚ just like talking‚ comes the people who think they can text and drive. Texting takes about five seconds‚ but in that minute a lot of things can happen‚ you can run off the road‚ hit a car‚ hit a tree‚ the possibilities are endless. To type a text it usually takes five seconds‚ when driving at 55mph in five seconds you go as far as a football field
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Texting and Driving According to GPS Systems 16‚000 drivers were killed by headset use between 2001 and 2007. Knowing that a headset is mostly hands free think of the millions of teens and adults who you see texting with one hand off the wheel and eyes off the road. How many more deaths a year do you think there are with that? While texting and driving in itself is a horrible thing our government has tried to make laws to protect people for other drivers texting while they are driving but they have
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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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Texting and driving Sitting on the highway in traffic and the cell phone goes off. Hearing the familiar text message ringtone a person starts to think‚ “Maybe it is my friend telling me about the update on the party tonight‚ or my mother‚ what if something is wrong?” It does not look like traffic is going to be moving anytime soon‚ and knowing that it would only take a minute‚ if that‚ to respond‚ they do. Before they know it‚ the car in front of them stops too fast and there in an accident. Texting
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Sydney Wooten November 7‚ 2012 Period 3 Aggressive Driving http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/Employer%20Traffic%20Safety/Pages/NationalAggressiveDriving.aspx This article talks the different types of aggressive driving such as‚ speeding‚ unnecessary lane changes‚ tailgating‚ and running red or yellow lights. These are a dangerous‚ unsafe to all drivers and can harm many people on the road with an aggressive driver. Aggressive driving is the top threat to highway safety. The accidents are mainly
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