In the United States of America approximately 32,000 people die each year from speeding in an automobile. two of my friends past away on January 4, they were victims of reckless driver, which blew red light going 100 MPH on Ford Rd and telegraph. When I went to the funeral it broke my heart seeing his mom crying, and after they put his casket in the grave she tried to threw herself in it, other people had to hold her back. I felt the pain because he was one of my close friends and my team captain; it wasn’t easy for me to believe that he is gone. But if the guy who hit them didn’t have the bad habit of speeding they would have never died as two young men.
Drunk driving is the leading cause of death for people from the age of six to thirty-three years old (Curran, 1). One in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime (MADD, 1). Everyday thirty-six people in the United States die due to the crashes and approximately 700 more are injured in car crashes that involve alcohol-impaired drivers. This year, 10,839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes; one every fifty minutes (MADD, 1). “Cracking down on those who take drugs or drink and then drive is a year round commitment for Warwickshire and West Mercia.”- West Mercia Police.
This habit has increased for the past 10 years due to the enlargement of technology. Due to this problem people get killed or severally hurt, you don’t know it but you’re hurting yourself and others. Another bad thing about texting or talking on the phone while driving is that you can get pulled over and get a ticket. Driving while texting or talking can be a bad example for others or your kids because by you doing they probably think that they can to so it can be dangerous. There are also many under age drivers on the road that makes driving on the road more dangerous for them and anyone driving that day.
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In my opinion, the one way to fix this problem is by imprisoning the offenders on their first offense. Hundreds and thousands of innocent people are dying each year because of drunk driving. Can you imagine the pain that the families of these innocent people have to go through when they lose a loved one all because of something as petty and preventable as an accident caused by a drunk driver? It is never ok to take the life of another person, and drunk driving is just someone threatening to do that in my opinion. If a person says that they did not mean to hurt anyone when they drink and drive, I still take it as they did mean to do it.
“According to U.S. Department of Transportation statistics, 3,331 people were killed and 387,000 more injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2011” (Herzog, 2011). This tells us that driving and texting is clearly killing and injuring people. Car accidents can cause physical and emotional distress. In the film family members were showing signs of emotional and physical distress by hitting the arm rest on the chair and when talking repeatedly about how they can’t say things that they want their child to do. It was difficult for some to tell the story of the accident because they were in so much pain and frustration.
(Understanding Theories of Criminal Victimization Robert F. Meier and Terance D. Miethe Pg. 475) This theory is strongly reinforced by what occurred September 29th, the New York City Hudson Henry Parkway is no place for your typical road rage and upon seeing what looked to be the start of a conflict Lien should have immediately laid off the bikers to protect his family instead he fed into the teasing of the bikers dragging him into a high-risk environment. Target attractiveness plays a huge role here in this case because there were many vehicles out on the Parkway on this busy Sunday travel yet for unknown reasoning Lien’s Range Rover was chosen, this brings up the questions of whether he did something major to attract the bikers or maybe was it just the fact that he was driving a high end SUV, making him a likely target of the group. Whatever the case may have been had Lien backed off and did as the bikers wished he wouldn’t have been singled out and this story would have never came about. However the last part of this theory plays a substantial role in the whole situation, which is, the absence of guardianship, this was very apparent as there was not a single cop throughout this whole entire scene on a busy highway, typically the cops would be all over something of this nature however on the 29th things were different and for whatever the reason the police failed to respond quickly and the lack of guardianship made this crime unfold into what could have been a fatal attack in the streets of New York
A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath is a article by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson. In the article, a boy makes the decision to drive drunken with four other friends in his vehicle. As the night progress he ends up in a collision and many people loose their lives. In the crash there were many factors that caused the accident. For example, the number of people in five seated car, the amount of alcohol consumed, party that students attended before the accident, and the students actions in the car.
My Three Bad Driving Habits Thousands of people are killed in car accidents every year. There are an assortment of reasons why; from driving drunk to even falling asleep at the wheel. The main reason that most people are killed in car accidents each year is because most people have very bad driving habits, and the main of these people are teenagers. Many teens believe themselves to be immortal, so they feel they can do anything and nothing will go wrong, or hurt them. The three worst habits teens have are road rage, poor grasp on safety, and multitasking.
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. These are very dangerous to life and others. A driver's license for a teenager is a milestone and one of the biggest events in young lives. Of course the independence it gives teens is wonderful, but it can be quite frightening to a parent when one’s child drives a car. Teens will have to handle a lot of instructions and rules of the road, and they must be ready for this responsibility, so teens must take driving lessons.