... hour. The first drunk driving accident occurred in London by a taxi driver hitting a wall. Not much damage can be caused by a car going 10 mph, but little did the...
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...Buzz Driving is still Drunk Driving Comm215 Buzz Driving is still Drunk Driving When will we come together and realize drinking and driving destroys families? Everyday in America, 28 people die as a result to drunk driving. Each one of those deaths was someone’s mother, father, son, daughter, brother or sister and each one of those deaths could have been prevented. This is not me sitting here trying to convince you why would should not drink and drive; on the contrary, this is a wake up call America. This epidemic has severe life threatening consequences and could be decreased if we all took steps toward ending this epidemic. Everyday, someone drunk is commuting on the same streets and highways that you and I use; many lives are taken away because of the selfish act of one person. In 2012, 10,322 people died in drunk driving crashes, which came out to one death in every 51 minutes. The average drunk driver is said to drive 87 times drunk before he is ever pulled over with suspicion of drunk driving. About 12% of offenders are convicted of a second offence within 10 years. With statistics like that, you cannot help but to imagine that during every hour of the day, someone is on the roadways who has had too much alcohol to drink. Every year, 900,000 people are arrested for drunk driving and of those 1/3 of those are repeat offenders meaning they are simply going to do it again. Many years ago for example, an individual I knew had been arrested five times for...
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...101 7/22/2012 Prof. Perkins Persuasive Speech I.Attention 1. You tube video clip, “Dedicated to Loved Ones Lost” 2. Every day in America, another 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2011.) II. Central Thesis Drunk driving is an epidemic that continues to have severe and life threatening consequences for those involved, if we simply take a few steps against drunk driving we can help decrease this epidemic. III. Body A. Need: Drunk driving occurs everyday, and many lives are taken because of one person choice. 1. Every 52 minutes on average, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash (10,288 people in total in 2012). (Madd.org “About drunk Driving”). 2. 900,000 people are arrested each years and 1/3 of those are repeat offenders. (drinkinganddriving.org “Drunk Driving Statistics”). 3. The annual cost of alcohol- related crashes totals more than $51 billion. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “ Impaired Driving: Get the Facts”). 4. An average drunk driver will drive drunk 87 times before being pulled over. (Word Press, “Statistics”). B. Satisfaction: We all need to actively help prevent drunk driving. 1. Plan ahead. a. Put money aside for a taxi. b. Have a designated driver. c. Have a back up designated driver. 2. Never let anyone drive drunk. a. Offer to drive them home. b. Offer to get them a taxi. c. Stop being afraid to speak up. 3. Hosting a party a. Make sure people are...
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...Three people are killed every two hours due to alcohol-related highway car crashes (Drunk). The state of Virginia and even the United States of America continues to let off driving while under the influence of alcohol with minor punishments that do not even ensure the ongoing safety of the drivers on the road. The punishment for a first offender should be imprisonment to make the roads a safer place. The penalties set in place now does not ensure that the offender does not get behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated. The offenders do not learn any lessons by the penalties they are given currently. As the penalty is now, people are not taking this offense seriously. In fact, young people on Youtube have been posting videos of themselves drunk like it is a normal, inconsequential action (Primack). If there was a new penalty put in place that imprisons first offenders of drinking and driving, the numbers of alcohol-related car accidents would surely drop significantly, and stop the younger generation drinkers from thinking it is impossible for them to get in trouble for their action. The penalties for driving while under the influence are too loose compared to how serious the crime is. In the state of Virginia, the penalty for a first offender of driving while under the influence is a license suspension and a fine of a maximum of three-hundred dollars (DUI). This punishment is not nearly as harsh as it should be. Suspending an offender’s license does nothing to ensure the...
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...essay drunk driving[Writer’s name] [Professor’s name] [Course title] [Date] DRUNK DRIVING: PROBLEM SOLUTION ESSAY Drunk driving also called driving under influence is a crime because it is illegal to drive with blood levels of alcohol in excess of a certain limit. Drivers having high blood alcohol content (BAC) are at higher risk to death or injuries due to accidents. According to National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. 32 percent of accidents are the results of drunk driving (NCADD, 2014). In America drunk driving has taken lives of many citizens the drivers not only hurt their selves but also are threat to other’s safety. In the year 2000, 16,653 accidents occurred due to using alcohol during driving. Due to drunken driving almost 17,274 people were killed in 1995 (PBS, 2002). Moreover almost one million people are injured due to alcoholic driving (PBS, 2002). Alcohol is the major cause of accidents and more deaths are likely to occur due to use of alcohol during driving as compared to instances where alcohol was not used. Alcohol when take in absorbs quickly throughout the body fluids and affect physical ability of a person. It affects the vision and reduces peripheral vision. During driving a person has to be more active and attentive but alcohol can make sleepy and confused. It is hard to track visual search and number monitoring during driving. Alcohol affects the brain greatly so you lose control over your speech and walk and ability to think and...
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...puberty. An exception is that America recognises it as a maturity of the body instead of maturity of emotions. For instance, Tewolde vandalized parking meters, looted Halloween baskets, and played many pranks. Post libee migbar Tewolde distributed money to people and places in need. For example, Tewolde financially supported the homeless man he met at the library. After going through libee migbar Tewolde was new man. Libee migbar and puberty came from different countries but with a similar concept. 5. Chapter: Libee Migbar, page 69 “But Tewolde never talked to the management, and he never graduated from high school. A drunk driver killed him midway through his senior year.”...
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...head off to your friends house. While you’re driving, you notice you are feeling a little drowsy. You see some headlights that look like they are heading towards you. Then all of the sudden you collide. After everything settles, you realize you are alright. You crawl out of the window and walk towards the other car. Looking through the spider-cracked windshield, you see a woman and her two kids, all dead. In 2005, there were an estimated 16,885 alcohol related fatalities in the U.S. That is over 39% of automobile related fatalities that year. On average, 254,000 people are injured in alcohol related wrecks in a year. After hearing these statistics, you can tell that drinking and driving is a huge issue in America. The dangers of drunk driving effect drivers of America every day. Not only do you have to be responsible enough to control yourself from drinking and driving, you also have to worry about other people that are drinking and driving. Even though you may not wreck while driving drunk, there are other risks involved. When driving while impaired by alcohol, it’s very easy for police officers to notice you. If you are even caught drinking underage, no matter where it is, you can be put on probation. If your caught drinking and driving underage, your running the risk of losing your license. I’m sure all of you agree with me when I say it wouldn’t be very cool to lose your license. In my opinion, losing the independence of driving is not...
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...At this time in America, there are teenagers participating in underage binge drinking, because of this they are either dead or in jail. This new media culture has glorified the consumption of alcohol among the youth will ultimately will lead to their deaths. Even though it is illegal to purchase alcohol for anyone under twenty-one. The legal drinking age should not be lowered to eighteen because drunk driving accidents would occur more often, adults are more mature at the age of twenty-one, and students in high school would be able to buy alcohol, resulting in even more underage drinking. If the minimum drinking age is lowered, a substantial amount of drunk driving would occur more often. When the drinking age was lowered, during the...
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...Student corner n°1 Drinking and driving The text October 18, 2011, The NY times Friends Still Let Friends Drive Drunk By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D. On Sept. 15, Matthew Grape, 21, got into the passenger seat of a car with one of his Duke University fraternity brothers. The driver hit a tree, escaping with minor injuries, but killing his dear friend. According to local press reports, the driver was charged with impaired driving. Nearly 11,000 deaths related to alcohol-impaired driving still occur each year in the United States, despite a three-decade surge in anti-drunken driving activism, stricter laws and clever slogans like “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” There are more than 110 million instances of impaired driving each year, according to data from the 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey and summarized in a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How can this still be occurring, and what can be done about it? Back in 1980, when Candy Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter, Cari, was killed in California by a drunken driver with several previous arrests for driving while intoxicated, including one only two days earlier, there was little public discussion of the topic, even though drunken drivers killed 25,000 Americans annually. Crashes were called “accidents,” and victims were characterized as having been “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Police and prosecutors routinely allowed drunken drivers to plead to lesser offenses...
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...young age is not healthy for teenagers at such a young age, because by the time they’re are twenty one they’re already alcoholics. When thinking about lowering the drinking age, you have to put the poor choices that would be made by an intoxicated teen in perspective. Such as, dropping out of school, laziness, violent behavior, and drunk driving. To no surprise, too much alcohol can slow down a person’s ability to think, react, and make decisions at the current moment. One important and deadly impact drinking can have on teenagers drinking at an early age is drunk driving. On average, two in three people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime. According to huffingtonpost.com, every day in America another twenty eight people die as a result of drunk driving. If the drinking age is lowered to eighteen it would do nothing to decrease those numbers, it will only increase the death rate. In conclusion, we can clearly see that underage drinking is not a good thing, and should be avoided for the sake of lives. As i stated previously, lowering the drinking age to eighteen can cause poor decisions making; which can lead to death, drunk driving, and addiction. The drinking age being lowered will only make things worse and should not be lowered for the sake of...
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...and smoke as much tobacco products as they’d like, Eighteen year olds can now do everything their parents do except legally consume alcohol. If they are caught in public drinking alcohol they will be arrested. College students and soldiers are being forced to drink unsafely in the privacy of their homes because they are not legally able to purchase or consume alcohol. Minors are surrounded by their drunken peers every day and want to join in on the fun, but can’t legally drink. They are forced to drink heavy amounts of alcohol in a short amount of time, and this leads to alcoholism, drunk driving, heart and liver disease, and alcohol poisoning. Over time lowering the legal drinking age to eighteen will greatly reduce binge drinking which will result in less alcohol related deaths. Binge drinking is having ten or more drinks on one occasion. Binging can lead to violence, alcohol poisoning, drunk driving, and alcoholism, all of which can be deadly. This has become a major problem in the United States. The majority of binge drinkers are minors, people under the legal drinking age of 21. Over the last five years, the number of students binge drinking went up three to five times, which means the number of alcohol related deaths per year is also rising. This is a new problem that was a result of raising the drinking age from eighteen to twenty-one. If it was lowered back to eighteen there would be no need to binge drink. Over time binge drinking will stop being the new thing to do, and...
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...cold shower, or exercise will not make a person more sober; only time will. Mainly on average, an impaired driver will drive 80 times under the influence before their first arrest. Every 53 minutes in America, a life is lost in a drunken driving collision; that is around 27 people every day. As well as every 90 seconds, someone is injured from a drunk driving incident. In 2011, 9,878 people were victims of drunk drivers. 211 children were killed in drunk driving crashes in 2010. Of those 211 children, 62 percent were riding in the car with the impaired driver. Driving while impaired comes from drinking an amount of alcohol that is over the legal limit. Some forms of drinking and driving could occur from some social environments for example if you’re friends encourage you to drink and you not realizing how much you have had to drink go in a car and drive its not entirely your fault you’re judgment was impaired at the time. We live in an age where we have rights and a potential different viewpoint could be if you pay for the car and you’re paying for the alcohol it should be you’re decision to drink and drive as long as you take responsibility for the out come. Will you let your children; a family member or loved ones risk their lives and other peoples as well by driving under the influence? Is it worth it to drive while impaired? References; http://madd.ca/madd2/en/impaired_driving/impaired_driving_statistics.html http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2013001/article/11739-eng...
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...This takes the form of the drinking age. As the number of years that you can both drink and drive is reduced, so too will drunk driving as a result. However, outlawing alcohol or driving would be outlandish in the United States. It seems then that there is a problem that is causing functioning drivers to begin drinking before they drive when they should not. Regardless of whether this is due to a lack of proper alcohol education or even the drinking age itself, this is the issue to press on. There is an assumption that highering the legal drinking age will decrease the incidence rate of motor vehicle accidents. Instead, instead evidence driven safety measures (such as seatbelts and strict drunk driving laws) should be implemented over more than a proof of...
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...Some of these statistics include that there are already some states that allow drinking under the age of 21, as long as it is done in a controlled environment. We are holding the drinking age at 21 when many states already allow drinking under that age. When talking about drinking, often times the topic of drunk driving accidents and other such things related to this. Well statistics have shown that drunk driving are most common in newly drinkers, regardless of the drinking age being at 21 or 18. This being said there could be just as many drunk driving accidents at age 21 as there would be at 18. This is just due to the fact that they are new drinkers. But also on this same topic, it has been discovered that there are less drunk driving accidents in countries that have a lower minimum drinking age. Another very valid point is money. One of the points stated is, “Underage drinking accounts for 17.5%, or $22.5 billion, of consumer spending for alcohol in the United States.” (18 Interesting Pro Lowering the Drinking Age Statistics). This shows that individuals drinking under the age of 21 is generating revenue. Lowering the drinking age would only help this. The underage drinking that goes on now is done by those that are not afraid of the law, if the minimum age...
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...Informative speech #2 Katarina Hastings Amen! Agreed! Facts Statistics Prevention Prevention Statistics Laws Facts Facts Prevention Statistics I dare you!... - Every day in America, 28 people die as a result of a drunk driving accident. - Drunk Driving costs the United states $132 billion a year. - Most people who have DUI's are not alcoholics. - December is Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month. - Half of all holiday driving fatalities are alcohol related. - 50-75% of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license. - 2/3 of sentenced to incarceration are repeat offenders. - Age 21-24 caused about 34% of accidents. - Age 25-34 caused about 30% of accidents. - Age 35-44 caused about 25% of accidents. - Texas had 3,071 fatalities, 40% (1,437) are alcohol related. - In a group assign a designated driver. - Try to find a bar in walking distances of your home. - Call a cab or other public transportation. - Drink nonalcoholic drinks. - Annual total of text messages surged from 57 billion in 2005 to 1.8 trillion in 2010. - 1 in 5 drivers confess to surfing the web while driving. - Brain function decreases by 40% when trying to multitask. - A crash is likely to happen: 23x's more while texting 2.8x's more while dialing a number 1.4x's more while reaching for a device 1.3x's more while talking or listening on the phone. - 11 DEATHS HAPPEN EVERYDAY! - 2,600 traffic deaths are caused each year by drivers using cell phones. - 570,000 accidents...
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