Name: Brandon Adrien Teen Driving Issues Project Topic: Drunk Driving |Section Heading |Information | |Why is this a problem, |This is truly a great problem because according to the DMV, being intoxicated while driving is a common cause | |especially for teen |of very serious crashes, especially those that are fatal, involving teenage drivers. | |drivers? | | |Statistics from |More than 10,000 people die by drunk driving and hundreds of thousands have been injured. | |research regarding teen|Every year, about 708,000 people get injured in crashes related to alcohol. | |crash rates.
The drinking age should not be lowered to 18. Lowering the drinking age from 21 years old to 18 years old could lead to an increase in dangerous behavior such as drunken driving and car accidents, risk of developing alcoholism and people under the age of 21 do not fully understand the dangers of alcohol. A teenage driver and alcohol is a dangerous combination. Drinking and driving accidents are the number one cause of death among teenagers. “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)”.
In Florida, distracted driving is the biggest cause of traffic accidents. A teenager was sent to prison for texting while driving, when he killed one person and seriously injured another. Texting makes a crash up to 23 times more likely to happen. Do you want to be remembered by the last text you
To examine this issue one should look at the following: Firstly, I would love to see the death rates in Alcohol related deaths go down drastically. The U.S has the highest drinking age in the world and it has been estimated to have saved 17,000 lives. More people would get to live till their oldest. Secondly, the highest deaths among teens are road crashes, and 2 out of the 5 teens had been drinking. Thirdly, how would you feel driving to your child’s funeral knowing it could have been prevented?
Unfortunately there was none available, so the court decided to have him put in Giobault School for Boys. Charles, twelve, remained for a brief period of time before running away to his mother, who would reject him. Thus, he ran away yet again, igniting a lifelong career of crime. He lived on the streets and made money by thievery. Charles was arrested in Indiana and escaped from a juvy center after just four days confinement, getting away in a stolen car.
This meant layoffs for thousands of people. Starting in late 2006 early 2007, the city was getting closer to hitting its rock bottom. Detroit became the number one city in the nation ranked for foreclosures. It was said that more than 5% of households were entering the state of foreclosure. Compared to the rest of the country, Detroit had 4.8 times the number of foreclosures (2007 in Detroit was brutal, more than 113,889 homes had filed or were about to file for foreclose.
For 15–24 year olds, homicide is the second leading cause of death and claims more than 8,500 lives each year; suicide is the third leading cause of death among this group and claims 4,140 lives each year. (cdc.gov.) violent behavior is experienced more by male adolescents than their female peers. Males are much more likely to have been in a physical fight and be threatened/injured with a weapon. In addition, adolescent males are also more likely to carry a weapon.
Although we have educated and preached to our children about drinking and driving, the statistics in 2001 showed an estimated 2.8 million college students drove under the influence. That’s half a million more than in 1998. An alarming statistic from Mothers Against Drunk Driving is that more college under-graduates will die from alcohol related causes than will receive a masters or doctorate degree. Another statistic, one I found sickening and very upsetting was,” During a typical weekend, an average of one teenager dies each hour in a car crash. Nearly fifty percent of those crashes involved alcohol” (MADD).
| At the time of the accident, drivers aged 21 to 24 involved in fatal accidents are most likely to have been ____.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | driving while intoxicated | | | | | * Question 7 1 out of 1 points | | | What are the major health risks for emerging adults?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | automobile accidents and substance abuse | | | | | * Question 8 1 out of 1 points | | | In Erik Erikson's theory of development, each stage of life has a central crisis, and in adolescence the crisis is ____.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | identity versus identity confusion | | | | | * Question 9 1 out of 1 points | | | At what age is peak bone mass generally reached?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | during the 20s | | | | | * Question 10 1 out of 1 points | | | For most people, when does identity achievement occur?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | emerging adulthood | | | | | * Question 11 1 out of 1 points | | | At what age does cardiac output reach its peak?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | 25 years | | | | | * Question 12 0 out of 1 points |
Teenagers risk their lives everyday texting and driving, and a lot have teens have been killed from texting. A. About 6,000 deaths and a half a million injuries are caused by distracted drivers every year from text messages and cell phone usages. 1. Teenagers spend about 10 percent of the time outside the driving lane they’re supposed to be in.