Driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol is one of the most dangerous things you can do. Alcohol causes: drowsiness, distorted vision, impaired judgment, decreased perception and lack of coordination. More people need to be deterred from driving after having too much to drink. Many drunk drivers are repeat offenders and impaired driving is the leading cause of criminal death in Canada. The penalties for impaired driving should be more severe.
Firstly, the penalties for drunk driving should be more severe because many of the drunk drivers on the road have committed this crime before! You don’t even get sentenced with jail time the first time you’re caught, so this causes people to go right back to the same habit. During the second time a driver is caught, they don’t spend a long time in jail. A study examined almost 3,300 people convicted of an impaired-driving offence, and found 57 per cent of them guilty again at least once within five years on average (The Canadian Press,2011).People who have driven while under the influence before are more likely to cause accidents because they think they can …show more content…
What makes it even worse is that many young people are the victims of this crime based on teenage impaired driving statistics from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, auto accidents are the number one cause of death among young Canadians aged 15 – 25 and 50% of those crashes involve alcohol. Every day, on average, 4 Canadians are killed and 175 are injured in impairment-related crashes (MADD,2011).These crashes could all be prevented if people cared more about the consequences and the only way to get people to care more is if the penalties are more severe. No one really cares if they lose their license for a month but if they have to spend time in jail then they may think twice before getting behind the wheel after
Firstly, the penalties for drunk driving should be more severe because many of the drunk drivers on the road have committed this crime before! You don’t even get sentenced with jail time the first time you’re caught, so this causes people to go right back to the same habit. During the second time a driver is caught, they don’t spend a long time in jail. A study examined almost 3,300 people convicted of an impaired-driving offence, and found 57 per cent of them guilty again at least once within five years on average (The Canadian Press,2011).People who have driven while under the influence before are more likely to cause accidents because they think they can …show more content…
What makes it even worse is that many young people are the victims of this crime based on teenage impaired driving statistics from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, auto accidents are the number one cause of death among young Canadians aged 15 – 25 and 50% of those crashes involve alcohol. Every day, on average, 4 Canadians are killed and 175 are injured in impairment-related crashes (MADD,2011).These crashes could all be prevented if people cared more about the consequences and the only way to get people to care more is if the penalties are more severe. No one really cares if they lose their license for a month but if they have to spend time in jail then they may think twice before getting behind the wheel after