injuries. He was convicted of assault‚ manslaughter‚ wanton endangerment‚ and drunken driving and was sent to the Kentucky State Reformatory‚ where he served a nine-and-a-half-year sentence. Most of you probably didn’t realize that this many lives could be affected in just one accident. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)‚ approximately 10‚839 people will die in drunk driving accidents this year. That’s one death every 50 minutes. Today‚ I would like to inform
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occasionally checking your text messages could result in lifelong injury or even death. Although‚ how serious is this in the modern day world? With hands free calling and other technological advances‚ is distracted driving not as big of an issue as it was 10 or maybe even 20 years ago? Distracted driving happens when a person is operating a vehicle and partakes in a different activity that divides his/her attention. This usually happens when someone is using an electronic related device. According to the National
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Drinking While Driving Ever lost someone close or heard of someone who lost their life to drunk driving? Drinking and driving is becoming a serious problem that is spiraling out of control. If awareness of the true danger of drinking and driving doesn’t get out to the public America could be facing serious problems. These problems can result in the average life expectancy of a person becoming smaller and smaller. Each year this situation becomes a bigger problem that affects not only the drunk
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always how life works. Sometimes‚ it doesn’t matter how we plan it ... it doesn’t matter how we envision it. Sometimes‚ the moments that change our lives happen in spite of our most intricate plans. Tonight‚ I want to talk to you about texting and driving. Last year‚ the cellular
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percent of auto collisions involved cell phones. Can you guess how high that number is now? People now think that they can do multiple things at once while driving‚ and that’s not the case. It’s dangerous‚ but they don’t care. I do not think that out state does enough to prevent distracted driving. There are a few ways to avoid distracted driving and how to stop it. Cops can pull someone over if they see them on the phone‚ the government can start giving out tickets‚ put up cameras and satellites that
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person’s judgment. Their motor skills are affected‚ judging distance and judging speeds‚ their response time. These skills are vital to driving a car. So‚ common sense is if you drink you will be impaired‚ if you then try to drive a car‚ your driving will be impaired. Easy to say but so many people ignore the law and the basic common sense of not drinking and driving. Interesting that there is sort of a rule of threes: three cans of beer‚ three glasses of wine or three mixed drinks within one hour and
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Accidents Caused by Distracted Driving Distracted driving is quickly become the most common cause of traffic accidents in the United States. Drivers are doing more and more things behind the wheel that have nothing to do with the task of driving. The latest distraction‚ Pokémon Go‚ is just another example of drivers placing their safety and the safety of others at greater risk. From using social media while driving to eating and grooming‚ drivers are doing everything behind the wheel except what
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Distracted driving is a recent epidemic that is “killing 5474 (16%) people and injured 448‚000 (20%)” (Overton). Drivers are multitasking constantly when they are on the road. It is not just the different tasks they need to perform while driving‚ such as: looking into the rear mirrors‚ stepping on the gas and brake pedals‚ or calculating the stopping distance between their car and another obstacle. They are distracted by other tasks that involves electronics: looking at the gps‚ texting a friend
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Demetrius Isaac 27 November 2013 To Hattie Isaac Driving Essay In today ’s world driving is considered a right‚ but in fact as I have found out it is a big privilege and one with many consequences. “Fatalities due to driving rose from 105 in 2002 to 181 in 2006 by now the total will be almost 350 deaths in one year.” That is almost one person a day. As a driver I must have a lot of maturity in order to accept the enormous responsibility of having a license. In order to operate a car I must take
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Vancouver‚ Canada decided to try and make a difference. A safe heroin injection site is “a legally sanctioned medically supervised facility designed to reduce nuisance from public drug use and provide a hygienic and stress free environment in which individuals are able to consume illicit drugs intravenously” (“Supervised Injection Site” 1). One of these sites was installed in Vancouver and the amount of heroin involved deaths has gone down immensely. Safe injection sites could potentially lower the amount
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