Impaired and aggressive driving Impaired driving means operating any motor vehicle while you are impaired. Impaired driving can have serious consequences with safety and your driving record. Aggressive driving consiste on different behaviors, such as tailgating, speeding or not obeying right-of-ways. These two types of driving has serious consequences that can lead to injuries or other serious problems. Impaired driving can mean many things, such as driving under the influence or driving while you are over tired.
Texting while driving is just as dangerous as driving drunk or high. It can put your own you safety in jeopardy. Every time you text while driving your putting your life at risk and whoever around you life’s at risk. The people around you can be affected by you texting and driving. You can hit their car and permanently hurt them and if you don’t get hurt then you will have a huge lawsuit on your hands for that person’s health care and car damage.
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.
Texting while driving has become a major cause of accidents, especially among young drivers. When texting, you are too focused on your conversation instead of the road. This not only puts the driver of the vehicle is harms way; it creates an unsafe environment for all those in and around the automobile. Is a text message really that important? I highly believe that texting while driving should be illegal.
Bad judgment and poor decision making can cause an accident. 3. Driving under the influence can cause an accident. How will this information affect you as a driver now and in the future? (2-3
20% of injury crashes in 2009 involved reports of distracted driving. (National Highway Traffic
Texting or calling while driving can be one of the most dangerous distractions, and the could both lead to death or injury. Also, studies have shown that drivers that are texting are as impaired as drivers who are under the influence. Because drivers who are texting
Potential driving distractions include grooming, using your cell phone, eating and drinking, or even reading maps or adjusting the radio. Each day in the United States, more than 9 people are killed and more than 1,153 people are injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver. A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced to one year in prison, after he swerved into oncoming traffic and hit another vehicle head on, killing one person and seriously injuring another. He will also have his license suspended for 15 years. 69% of drivers reported they talk on their cell phones while driving.
They both affect ones vision of the road, and make the driver lose concentration. Both texting while driving and drinking while driving cause many accidents, injuries, and even death every day. Neither one is worse than the others. They both cause accidents, injuries and even deaths. Texting and driving has 11 deaths every day, 330,000 injuries per year, and 1,600,000 accidents per year where drinking while driving one, person dies every 48 minutes, has over 10,000 accidents and injuries per year and
Stop Texting & Driving Purpose: To persuade my audience to stop using their cell phones while driving a vehicle because it is irresponsible and extremely dangerous. Specific Purpose: Using a cell phone while driving is not only dangerous to you, but others on the road and is one of the top reasons today for car accidents. Attention Grabber: How many people here have texted while driving? I am like most people where I have texted while driving, but after I got into an accident a couple years back because I was distracted by texting, I rethought the level of importance of texting while driving. (show picture of my car) this is the result of what happened to me when I was texting on my way home from work a couple weeks ago.