Driving Drunk Driving Research Paper

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Are too many people driving drunk or not enough? Forty percent of car crashes are related to alcohol, meaning the other sixty percent are due to sober drivers (“General Statistics”). If less car crashes occur when drunk, why not drive drunk all the time? Driving drunk means driving with blurred vision and delayed reaction time, so you could almost make a game out of it. You can see how fast you can swerve off the road or even blow past a stop sign and hope nobody is coming the other way. Sober drivers think that they make the logical decisions, but ironically, they’re the ones who are causing the most car crashes. Sober driving accidents cost up to $114.3 billion each year to replace the trees and light posts that these sober drivers have

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