“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.
About 68,270 car thefts were reported to the police in 2008; representing 437 in every 100,000 registered vehicles. Australia experienced one car theft in every eight minutes (ABS, 2009). Application of Hirschi’s Theory Juvenile car thieves often develop superficial and poor quality friendships with peers due to their similarities in attitudes and behaviour. The relationships they establish tend to go beyond the family to peers and school friends, since they find these relationships rewarding in provision of social support (Shoemaker, 1990). The central approaches to the study of
Violent, preventable crimes by minors have long plagued America’s larger cities but have scarcely been punished because of the age of the perpetrators. Protected by a lenient and highly outdated juvenile justice system, violent youth have taken advantage of such benefits and have run rampant in our cities. High profile slayings are quite the norm on the evening news, and every once in a while, disaster strikes and we lose a large number of lives at the hands of young offenders. And sadly, naive America continues to lose more and more lives at the hands of reckless teens and repeat offenders because we choose to give them as many chances as they need so long as they are not legal adults. Unfortunately, we have to lose and destroy more lives because we refuse to
Especially around where we live, people have high self-esteem and they think they know everything because they got money and drive nice cars, which they never worked for it so they wouldn’t understand the value of the car. Most traffic accidents are caused by dangerous driving habits attained and carried out by drivers such as speed, using cellphone. Thousands of people are killed in car accidents every year. The main reason that most people are killed in car accidents each year is because most people have very bad driving habits, and speeding is one of the most dangerous drivers habit, it causes many accidents that take a love one’s life and destroy families’ every day. In the United States of America approximately 32,000 people die each year from speeding in an automobile.
Brittney Caine English 101-024 Professor Benjamin Draft 1 Argumentative Essay: Should Drunk Drivers Be Imprisoned On First Offense? People lose their lives every second of everyday. One of the leading causes of deaths is motor vehicle accidents, and one of the leading causes of motor vehicle accidents is drunk driving. Drunk driving is a problem that can be fixed. In my opinion, the one way to fix this problem is by imprisoning the offenders on their first offense.
I viewed the video that was entitled “stress and alcohol. At the beginning of the video a man describes how alcohol can take such a huge toll in our society. Alcohol leads to many fatal highway accidents, assaults and half of all fatal fires. Alcohol can be very addicting and takes less than one drink for a problem to occur. The man then begins to talk about how college age students can easily become addicted to alcohol.
Another concern in many different communities around the United States is the distracted teen driver, not just the adult. A 2009 report says with the way teens use media the text messaging trend is increasing dramatically, in two years the amount of text messages sent has increased by 566%. A majority of the teens on the road understand the risk of texting while driving, but the eagerness to stay connected is so strong for teenagers and parents the communication becomes more of a concern than safety sometimes. Distracted driving is very dangerous and it includes more than just
“Incidents of “road rage” were up 51% in the first half of the decade, according to a report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,” writes Andrew Ferguson in Road Rage (553). It’s sad that due to road rage many innocent commuters suffer the consequences. It has also happened to me while driving; because I’m driving to slow, the person behind me starts to blow the horn. And, it makes thing worse because then I will get mad and drive even slower. In Road Rage, Ferguson points out that in a recent survey that the Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety did, 64% of the people mentioned that they are driving less mannerly and more recklessly than they did about five years ago (553).
Cause and Effect of Drivers A car is necessary in the daily lives, but it's extremely dangerous when we use it. According to statistics: automobile accidents are attributed to 37.5% of accidental deaths in the United States, making them the country's leading cause of accidental deaths. A journalist wrote "Teens, Cars, Cell phones. The mix is as combustible as gas, fire and oxygen. And the result can be just as deadly” .Most cases, accidents are caused by children under the age 16 driving, drinking while driving, or taking on the phone and text messaging while driving.
Next, over the years people are starting to want to become greener which means them taking out factors in there that harm the environment. Many studies have shown that cars is one of the bigger contributors in the pollution that is happening to today. I believe that it’s from people wanting cars that are faster and louder and just over all suck more gas. But over the last three years people that are becoming greener and put the gas hog away. We all have noticed how car makers are always trying to keep up on what is the newest and the