Drunk driving in the United States

According to MADD (Mothers against Drunk Driving) a research based study established that there was an average budget savings of $50,000 for every spot check, as well as over $3,000 in medical expenses. Others have established that checkpoints save between $6 and $23 dollars for each dollar financed…

Drunk Driving Repercussions Drunk driving has been and continues to be an extremely serious issue. It affects so many in different ways, from the drunk driver, the person they hit, and all of the families involved. One of the biggest concerns is that the penalties for Driving Under the Influence have not been as strong as what it should be. Too many times in the past you will read or hear about someone being arrested for DUI and they either get a fine and no sentence or a very minimal sentence.…

that this video inspired me greatly, it taught me how serious drunk driving can be and how it affects other people's lives. Drunk driving is serious and can be fatal to other people's lives and can really mess up yours also. Being drunk and driving can ruin your life and others, or even end them. Just like that man who got hit by that drunk driver and killed his wife and his son plus his daughter. It must’ve been tragic, also the drunk driver just walked away and never rendered aid. You’d think…

convicted of driving while drunk carries major penalties, including hefty fines and a suspended driver's license. However, those are just the legal consequences. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a person is injured in a drunk driving accident every two minutes, which can result in catastrophic damages if you're at fault. Loughlin Fitzgerald P.C., a personal injury attorney in Wallingford, recommends calling one of the following transportation providers instead of drying drunk. No…

S. so many americans participate in drinking and driving, an event which could eventually end up becoming a deadly accident? The government may say that they are taking care of the problem, but the simple truth is clear. Drinking and driving, which affects the driver’s vision and reactions to the environment, is very dangerous and not in order to care for the predicament more preventative action needs to be taken. Thanks to drinking and driving, many families and loved ones are dead or…

away. The royal bodyguard of the princess, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the sole survivor of the accident, however having withstood serious injuries. It was determined by a series of investigations that the crash was caused primarily due to the drunken state of the driver who was speeding at levels that greatly exceeded the legal limit. It was concluded…

are being careless of themselves and their surroundings and they have no regard for anyone else’s safety. While people may think being hit by a drunk driver could only have a negative effect on them, there may sometimes be positive effects on those who have experienced them. After getting hit by a drunk driver at the age of ten with my grandmother driving, I have realized over-time that I have learned a lot from my experience. Although we were only rear ended, it was a very traumatizing and…

I understood the consequences of driving impaired before I had operated a vehicle for the first time. Today, grown adults with careers still do not take into consideration the consequences of their sporadic reckless behavior involving alcohol. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly thirty people are buried each day due to drunk driving. That’s almost eleven-thousand lives that are taken each year due to poor choices…

Should laws for texting and driving be the same as laws for drinking and driving? Have you ever seen someone texting and driving, while you were in a car? If so, you might’ve also noticed that they weren’t really paying attention to the road, isn’t that scary? Texting while driving is a newly found issue, and it is seen in drivers of all ages. Texting while driving didn’t used to be a very big issue, but now that everyone has hand held phones and devices, it seems to have become something…

Erie Insurance and Dom Tiberi share Maria’s Message and Choices: The Dangers of Drunk Driving Maria’s Message public service announcement begins with Dom Tiberi, Maria’s father, describing the general details of Maria’s accident and why he, and Erie Insurance, have partnered together to bring Maria’s Message to the forefront. Using a statistic on how many teenagers have taking pledge to help prevent distracted driving accidents high lightening the importance of spreading the Maria’s Message…