Drunk driving

“In 2015, 10,265 people died in drunk driving crashes - one every 51 minutes - and 290,000 were injured in drunk driving crashes” (Kaufman 866). That means that every 51 minutes someone loses a family member to the detrimental effects of drunk driving, a social and economic issue that costs the United States over $270 billion annually. While it is impossible to completely end DWI’s, there is a preventative solution that can dramatically lower the rates of drunk driving, so instead of locking…

Lerner’s book discussed the matters on drunk driving and how they can affect people’s lives. In the summary I found in Collins library as stated in the citation above, he reports factual evidence and statistics to show both sides of people who argue with drunk driving and those who said the problem was, “Exaggerated and overregulated.” The debate continues with both sides stating why and why not they agree and disagree with the matter of people driving drunk. Should they continue regulating…

Both of the videos that were shown in class deal with drinking and driving or texting and driving and the major negative consequences that they can lead to. In the video “Coppell Shattered Dreams 2017” it talks about how all of the little moments in your life lead you to one life altering moment. The teenagers in the video lived ordinary lives, they attended school as high school seniors, hanged out with friends, imagined and planned what prom would be like. Overall, they experienced the high…

6. Drunk driving can be stopped. One thing I know about people is that a lot of people always use the term “Don’t start because it’ll be hard to stop”… nothing is that hard to just simply stop doing. I know we’ve all smelled dishwashing liquid and at some point when most of us as kids tasted it and it was the worst taste ever. We’ve never tried it again. Same for driving drunk or drinking in general. It can all be stopped. People don’t want to stop because most people just do it because they…

are being careless of themselves and their surroundings and they have no regard for anyone else’s safety. While people may think being hit by a drunk driver could only have a negative effect on them, there may sometimes be positive effects on those who have experienced them. After getting hit by a drunk driver at the age of ten with my grandmother driving, I have realized over-time that I have learned a lot from my experience. Although we were only rear ended, it was a very traumatizing and…

Just a few startling facts about drunk driving include every two minutes somebody is injured in a crash involving alcohol, there are 28 deaths a day due to driving drunk, and in 2013, one person died every 52 minutes in alcohol related accidents. While these facts are terrifying, when you take the fact that these stats are only regarding the United states…

My Personal Narrative Driving away from gangsters is not an easy task. Especially if it’s heavily raining, 3 in the morning and your car is filled of drunk underage boys. It was the first time my parents allowed me to drive on my own after the allowed time for an underage driver. I had permission to drive to the party under the condition that I was to get home early and not joke around in the car. I was supposed to drive to the party and go home immediately, and for some stupid reason I…

cases are heard of drunk driving? Drinking and driving is associated with the consumption of alcohol and operating a motorized vehicle. Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol is considered a primary contributor to road accident deaths. Around the world, driving under intoxication is prohibited. Consumption of alcohol impairs the judgment of an individual making the driver unfit for driving a motor vehicle or any other individual unfit to operate any form of machinery. When driving under…

formed a close relationship with illegal offenses such as robbery, sexual assault, and homicide. When alcohol is present, situations often result in terrible consequences. Alcohol alone is dangerous. But what happens when irresponsible drinking meets driving? When a person gets behind the wheel intoxicated and decides it is okay to kill? Sadly, this happens every night. Over the years, there have…

It is the time that we put drunk driving on the brakes. Drunk driving is a very large problem, and has been for a very long while. In fact, “In 1995 more than 1.4 million people were arrested for driving while intoxicated, nearly 10 percent of all arrests made that year (Hingston 1).” Now think about how those statistics have changed over the years. My invention is the Steering Sober. It is a sleeve for the steering wheel that measures BAC levels and fingerprint to prevent carjacking and DUI.…