How Does Drinking And Driving Change Our Society

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Drinking and Driving has become a huge issue in the state of Texas. Most likely 75% of the people who drive are drunk drivers. At this rate nobody wants to drive because of fear.If we can change our society and the number of death rates would decrease.Let's make a stand together and change our society. Changing this issue would decrease the number of death rates. In 2015, 10,265 people died due to alcohol impaired driving. Drinking and driving impairs your senses (vision and hearing) which cause accidents which can cause deaths. Not being able to see or hear can mean you can't react the same way as in if you were in a good state.

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