injuries are reported almost every day. Someone is pleasure brings tragedy to the family and loved ones. For example‚ there are drunken driving accidents happening every day‚ but this particular multi death in one family is heartbreaking; a 29 year old drunk driver in a dark black SUV killed four innocent people‚ a grandfather and three children under ten years old‚ on Sunday September 27 of this year. This horrific accident took place at the intersection of Kirby and Kipling Avenue in Vaughan around 4:00
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Is Drunk Driving worth losing your life? Katie Ideal Thompson * Drinking and driving * Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates to not get behind the wheel after drinking. Thesis Statement: Drinking and driving is an issue that most seem to ignore and think it doesn’t affect us but what if one day it did? I. Attention A. Maybe you were out with your friends one night having fun drinking at a bar or house party maybe celebrating a birthday or special event such as new years.
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Abstract Cause: Driving drunk Effect One: Penalties Jail time Losing your job Missing your family’s time Effect Two: Personal injury The finical cost one self The cost to the state for those uninsured The cost to your family Effect Three: Cost of life Killing your self Killing incident bystanders Causing injury’s that are irreversible Annotated Bibliography Fancher‚ R. (2003). Drinking & DRIVING. Scholastic Choices‚ 19(1)‚ 6. Retrived from
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In Pennsylvania‚ there is a tiered approach to driving under the influence charges. Thus‚ the types of penalties you may face if convicted of drunk driving in the state vary based on numerous factors. These include your blood alcohol content level and your prior record. In order to ensure that your rights are protected‚ it is important for you to understand the levels of DUI‚ and the potential consequences. If your BAC level is allegedly between .08 percent and .099 percent‚ you may be subject to
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sometimes drunk driving still isn’t taken as serious as it needs to be; but with an annual cost of 50 billion dollars‚ alcohol related crashes are clearly still a problem. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers‚ especially if impaired‚ (Preventing). Impairment is defined as the amount of alcohol in the blood‚ (Drunk). The way the government/law enforcement can tell if someone is impaired is their BAC level. The government has also helped decrease the statistics of drunk driving
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Drunk Driving happens when the driver of a vehicle is intoxicated from alcoholic beverages. This very dangerous and has devastating effects. Many people die each year from a drunk driving accident. In the lesson on drunk driving it states‚" Almost half of the crashes in which people are killed nationally involve drinking. There are more than 16‚000 of those crashes each year." in the same essay it states‚" The average person is likely to be legally intoxicated after consuming three mixed drinks‚
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Drunk Driving Statistics In a study conducted by MADD (Mother’s Against Drunk Driving)‚ during the years 1999 to 2008 there were a total of 2‚050‚132 impaired driving accidents. The total cost of these accidents was an estimated $205.3 billion. That is approximately $6‚221 per Canadian. Broken down annually‚ the estimated cost to Canadians is $20.53 billion‚ or approximately $622 per person per year. Besides the cost‚ fatalities are a massive issue when it comes to driving under the influences
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breathalyzers in are cars. To begin with‚ there would be less of a chance of getting in an accident. Some may think it would be a bad idea‚ but just think you would stop drunk people for starting their cars and driving away harming people that might we walking‚ running‚ or maybe driving. There might even be kid’s in the car with drunk drivers not knowing what happening.
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Neha Reddy Informative Speech On the night of May 14‚ 1988‚ Larry Mahoney was drunk‚ so drunk that his blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) was more than twice Kentucky’s legal limit. Regardless‚ Mahoney got behind the wheel of his pickup truck and proceeded to drive northbound in the southbound lane of Interstate 71‚ crashing head-on into a church bus returning from an amusement park. The collision ruptured the bus’s gas tank‚ causing a fire that killed twenty-three children and four
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they ca ll a cab to give you a ride home. You would be extremely lucky to have such smart friends. Drunk driving is a very serious problem in our society today‚ but it is becomming socially unacceptable causing the numbers of alcohol related traffic fatalites t o decline considerably. Drunk driving can be very deadly. Yet many people drive while under the influence everyday. Drivers who are drunk are blamed for the loss of as many as twentyfive thousand lives in highway crashes
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