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.
“More than 1,700 college students in the U.S. are killed each year—about 4.65 a day—as a result of alcohol-related injuries” (The Marin Institute). With a number as high as this, lowering the drinking age would only increase this ongoing problem of underage drinking. It has even been proven by the Marin Institute to be the leading cause of death among teenagers. Many adults feel as if the 18 to 21 age groups cannot handle drinking responsibly, then they should not be permitted to use it. Alcohol is a very serious depressant and one of the leading problems for death (Hanson, 2007).
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.
“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.
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.
In 2007, around seventy thousand Americans were hospitalized due to accidental shootings. Between 2001 and 2007, around four thousand nine hundred people died because of an accidental shooting. Of those 4900 people killed, around 1750 of those were under the age of twenty-five. People die at way to young of an age because of somebody else’s or their own stupidity. Some people get trigger-happy when it comes to tense situations.
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With the population boom, just about everyone has a Millennial in their family or at least knows of one. They are the ones that are responsible for the highest proportion of texting and driving incidents. How would you feel, getting an early morning wake up call, to find out your sibling, coworker or friend had died in a car accident involving others of similar age? Perhaps they may have not been the one texting, or distracted, but at least one of the three drivers involved in the crash was a responsible. Our automobile industry has gone to several lengths to help fix this problem, yet people keep dying.
7/13/12 In the United States distracted driving is cause to more than 8,000 automobile accidents a day. The drivers that are most likely to be offenders to this are the youngest and the most inexperienced on the road. Out of the drivers involved in the accidents caused by distractions 16% of them are under the age of 20. So what are these driver distractions you may ask, they include texting, usage of a cell phone or smart phone, eating and drinking, talking to passengers, self grooming, reading, including maps, usage of a navigation system, watching a video, or adjusting the radio, cd player, or mp3 player. Types of distracted driving varies, there are visual
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.