In fact, every 30 minutes, someone in this country dies in a alcohol-related crash. Every 30 minutes! How would you feel if you lost a family member to such a simple avoidable mistake? Each year drunk driving is responsible for about 25% of deaths. The Loss of loved ones; loss of important family members and loss of friends resulting from irresponsible drunk drivers on the road are tragic and permanent.
Driving is commonly the most dangerous thing anyone does across the world. There are so many factors when driving that could make it a life or death situation. The number one issue with driving is teenage drivers they are more dangers because of the irresponsibility. All the teenagers text and drive and they think it is cool not to wear a seatbelt. This day in life teens think more narrow minded and less about the big picture.
“Traffic deaths from drunken driving have fallen steadily, with those involving teenagers 16 to 19 declining by 39.1 percent from 1982 to 1990, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)”. (Clark, 1992). Even though drinking and driving is a crime thousands of teens continue to get behind the wheel and kill thousands of innocent people in alcohol related crashes every year. There are drunken accidents because teens don’t take drinking and driving seriously. Teens just want to feel the pleasure and they want to feel good but don’t think about the other people or even there selves that they can kill on the road.
I lost a good friend of mine I known since I was middle school to texting and driving. Although he wasn’t the one doing it he was hit by a car on his motorcycle that was on their phone. He was in critical care and put on life support and they had to take him off because his family couldn’t afford it. So believe me I am not saying this for my health. I am saying it to raise awareness and credibility that this issue is very dangerous and can affect multiple people.
This bad habit does not help the young kids that ride in the car with their parents because the majority of parents either text or talk on the phone while driving with their children in the vehicle. People often go through a drive-thru on their lunch break because it’s quick and simple. What people do not realize is that eating while driving is also a dangerous habit to have while driving. Eating while driving is the worst form of distraction for a driver. A study done by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that drivers who eat while they drive increases the odds of having an accident by almost 80%.
Driving while distracted is the greatest threat facing new teenage drivers and anyone who shares the road with them. With the rapid pace of technological innovation it has made it very easy for people to become distracted. It is just not the best place to become distracted is going 70 miles per hour on the high way. This is a growing problem that needs to be solved. Every day more and more people are dying because of texting, checking their twitter, drinking, grooming, and eating while driving.
Sitting in traffic is one of the worst time consumers of the day. We all dislike wasting our time sitting in traffic when we are late for a meeting or late for a sporting event. My parents have worked with the Department of Transportation in Pinellas County for years and this has been the steaming question for their whole time there “How can we make travel on our roads better and smoother?” Many of their associates have thought that maybe if they just expand the more traveled roads that the ride would become less congested. This may have worked in the short term, but what they did not expect was the 42% increase in population over the last 30 years (US Census). Over the last decade or so, the department of transportation in the Tampa Bay area has proposed and idea for a monorail type system for the main areas of business in St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Tampa.
A Social Problem In America alone people take about two hundred and thirty three trips in cars each year, of all these, one out of two thousand of these trips are being taken by drunk or drugged individuals. Statistics show that one of three traffic tragedies involve drunk drivers. Approximately nine thousand eight hundred seventy eight people died in car crashes in the year 2011. Due to these high numbers it was determined that this was a social problem in which the whole nation should pay close attention
Glavas i Outline T: I think texting while driving should be banned in the United States, because it is the number one cause of car accidents, it also causes concentration problems, and people die every day from texting. * Texting is the number one cause of car accidents in the Unites States. A. Car accidents always happen every 30 seconds from texting. 1.
Problem/Solution Essay One of the biggest problems facing teenagers today is the fact that they tend to ignore a lot of responsibilities,such as safe driving. Teens are the most unsafe group of drivers on the road. For teenagers; car accidents is their leading cause of death in the US. Some reports say that teens account for only 2% of all drivers, but they are responsible for more than 10% of all traffic accidents. A large portion of those accidents happen when one vehicle hits a wall, tree, or even slides off the side of the road, this shows that the cause is reckless driving.