Lives Affected Video: Dangerous Drunk And Drinking Driver

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So after I watched the “Lives Affected Video” I started to think about how dangerous drunk and drinking drivers really are. As I started to think some more I realized that I think there are more drunk and drinking drivers than we think and that we are lucky that more people haven’t gotten hurt. There are impacts that drunk drivers have on innocent people and that they are in danger just because a drunk man/woman decided to get on the road ways and drive him/herself home.
If an accident did occur then not only would the victim’s lives and in some cases their loved ones lives be impacted by the drunk driver but the drunk driver’s life would have been impacted by the crash. First let’s start with the victim’s lives, the victim’s life could change

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