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.
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.
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Social Policy Decisions Paper Patrize P. Stuart BSHS/355 January 27, 2014 Linda Sewerbridges Introduction Since 1982, there were numerous of deaths by traffic which involved many people driving while drunk. A mother took a stand, to do something about drinking and driving. When this mother took a stand, other mother supported her, and took a stand alongside her. She was determining to influence people, to stand with her to stop death due to drinking and driving, other mothers, that had loss children to drunk drivers, channeled their grieve into the fight, that began in the 1980’s. Children under the age of 21, are not allowed to have no alcohol in their system that sit behind the wheel of an automobile.
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.
Zach White English-0 Satirical Essay In America there's a lot of problems with kids and under age drinking. A lot of young children die in drunk driving accidents every year, so finding a solution to this problem can save many lives. The reason all this is a problem is because teenagers tend to think there invincible and can drive under the influence but really they have no idea what there getting themselves into. Most kids miss judge the amount of alcohol they've consumed and when they get behind the wheel think there okay but in reality there way over the legal of drinking. I found there's only one solution to this problem.
“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.
Anyone that is caught while intoxicated should never have the right to drive again. Driving is a privilege, and people do take advantage of it, while endangering other lives. I hope that people learn that drunk driving is a terrible thing. You can end up hurting yourself, and other innocent people. People should think of their consequences before they go behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol.
A mother, Kim Schlau, in Leawood, Kansas describes the tragic loss of her two daughters due to a police officer who was using his cell phone and computer when he collided into them at 126 miles per hour. Mrs. Schlau was mourning the deaths of her daughters the day after Thanksgiving, which could have been easily prevented. These tasks that take our attention away from the rode can cause such a tragedy in a matter of seconds. In 2011, 3,331 people were killed, 387,000 people were injured, and 10 percent of all car crashes were due to distracted driving. Too many people lose their lives, their friends or family, and their health to distracted driving each
“Incidents of “road rage” were up 51% in the first half of the decade, according to a report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,” writes Andrew Ferguson in Road Rage (553). It’s sad that due to road rage many innocent commuters suffer the consequences. It has also happened to me while driving; because I’m driving to slow, the person behind me starts to blow the horn. And, it makes thing worse because then I will get mad and drive even slower. In Road Rage, Ferguson points out that in a recent survey that the Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety did, 64% of the people mentioned that they are driving less mannerly and more recklessly than they did about five years ago (553).