In 2015, it was found that male drivers were involved in 54.8% in alcohol-related crashes, while females were involved in 42.4% of the fatal crashes. In research from WalletHub, shows that the state of Ohio was one of the most lenient states when it came to laws about drinking and driving. Every person that is on the road, driver or passengers, are all affected by this issue. It is the matter of life or death. Many people are concerned about this issue because they are not safe.
More and more people are dying every day from alcohol related accidents and the sad part is, is that lots who die from alcohol related crashes, are victims. Someone supporting this issue, like me, would feel this way because we want to insure the safety of youths everywhere, and manly on the road. More and more people die every day and I wan to try to take the death rate down a notch. A person opposing this issue would disagree with me because, they would probably like to have youths make mistakes and learn from them, but what I say is, “What if you only have one chance?” An other thing an opponent would say would be to take the Europeans drinking in to thought,
“’Come on. Take a drink.’ ‘One drink won’t kill you.’ ‘It’s fun.’ ‘EVERYONE is doing it.’” Most teenagers eighteen years old or younger have probably heard one of these saying one or more times in their lifetime. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would increase the chances of kids and teens hearing these comments. There are already 11 teens that die each day due to alcohol related crashes. Lowering the drinking age would increase the teen alcohol related car crashes each year.
And now finally after more than a decade and countless reviews on safety, and wasted tax dollars, in April 2012, the Minister of Transportation Blair Lekstrom announced, the Province is spending $8 million to make the notoriously dangerous Malahat Highway much safer. According to an online report released April 3, 2012 on MetroNews.ca, "Life-saving improvements coming to Malahat Highway" By Philip Campbell. The highway work will add 5.4 kilometers of barrier to five sections of highway. When complete, more than 40 per cent of the Malahat will be divided. Other improvements include intersection upgrades, places for police to pull speeders over, new lighting and an advanced weather advisory
In the 1960’s and 1970’s when many states had lowered the MLDA, besides the rise in drunk-driving deaths, studies showed that people raised from childhood in under-21 states were involved in higher rates of alcohol and drug use as adults, and had a higher rate of homicides and suicides. (Moses, 2011) This in turn convinced federal law makers to raise the MLDA again to 21. However, in order to encourage states to comply, the federal government would tighten their purse strings and states would receive little or no funding towards highways. So while there are those who do not necessarily care one way or the other about the actual age limit on alcohol consumption, they do prefer having the federal
Their high crash rates per 100,000 miles driven are matched only by drivers age 85+ (Janke, Masten, McKenzie, Gebers, & Kelsey, 2003). The over involvement of teenagers in crashes is not unique to California; it is a problem nationwide and worldwide (Twisk, 1996; Williams, 1996). In fact, traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers across the United States (Foss & Goodwin, 2003; Jonah, 1986; Mayhew & Simpson, 1999; Shope & Molnar, 2003). High teen crash risk is due to a number of factors, including an obvious fundamental lack of driving skill. However, contrary to what one might think, the evidence suggests that poor vehicle control skills account for only 10% of novice driver crashes; the remaining 90% is accounted for by factors such as inexperience, immaturity, inaccurate risk perception, overestimation of driving skills, and risk taking (Edwards, 2001).
What happened if your car broke down? You wouldn’t be able to have anyone look at it until the next day. Overall, the Buy Nothing day would cause many complications for transportation. The idea may come up that if we put the Buy Nothing day to use in the United States, stores would not close down and it would help the society economically recover; however, stores may lose money and may not be able to recover. Some stores may depend on a daily consumers to buy from their stores.
Research shows that starting at age sixty-five, elderly drivers are more likely to be involved in deadly, multicar accidents. Although seniors understandably value the independence that comes with having a driver’s license, some people should not be behind the wheel. Should one license last forever, or should elderly drivers be required to undergo periodic reevaluation?” We want to decrease in deadly car accidents, so we should start these evaluations, because there might be many elderly who still have the capabilities to drive but there’re many who aren’t capable. About a month ago I tuned in a local news channel and they were talking about a deadly car accident, two survived but 2 others died and one of the drivers was a 63 year old man, who
Teens who have jobs wont be able to drive to work, they will have to rely public transportation and their family and friends. Teens who go to college would have to do the same thing. For a female teen it can be very dangerous using public transportation at night, and even for a male, and it isn’t even available everywhere. I think this solution will do nothing but cause more problems than it will solve. Some people may even suggest that students just need better driver’s education classes, or maybe just more classes, or more time behind the wheel.
Push for P-plates until 25 Forcing young drivers to remain on probationary licenses until the age of 25 would cut Victoria's road toll, says the state's top traffic police officer. Under the move, young adults would have to drive with a zero blood alcohol level for an extra three years, or for the first seven years of solo driving. Assistant Commissioner Robert Hill, who wants the community to consider making the change, said 40 per cent of people aged 20 to 25 who were killed or injured on Victorian roads every year were victims of drink-driving. Mr. Hill said medical research showed that the brain did not develop fully until the mid-to-late 20s, particularly the part that controlled decision-making. ''What I'm advocating is a community