Why Drinking And Driving Is Wrong

He boozes, he cruises, and he loses. Think about the people he loved, and how he felt about them. Would he want to ruin their future? Would he want to leave them with a heartache? If no, then do not drink and drive! People all over the world do it and thousands of people die yearly because of a poor decision. If he is going to drink, he should think about how he is getting home and all the other innocent people. While it does not always turn out bad, drinking and driving is the worst thing anyone can do because it puts ones future at risk, it kills innocent people, it kills one’s self, and it causes emotional scars.
One alcohol beverage can kill Dave or someone else if he is driving, even if he is not driving very far (Larsen 1). Alcohol is the leading factor in motor vehicle death (Smith 1). A 24-year-old man ran a red light and killed a mother and her two kids (Kirkwood 1). Now he has to face the charges, on top of the emotional abuse he faces for killing innocent people. Candace Lightner lost her daughter to a drunk driver. Her daughter was driving and another drunk driver struck her (Smith 1). Her daughter was the innocent one in the …show more content…
He had no idea what his kid was doing until he got the call. Most kids have no idea when to stop and what is enough, so they just continue drinking. Kenny Bollier and his friend were drinking and driving when they crashed, now he is paralyzed (Lewis 2). He now has to live completely different due to a bad decision. There was one death every 33 minutes in 1998 due to drunk driving (Smith 2). Alcohol is the number 1 killer of the youth, 6.5 times more than drugs (Smith 2). Drinking kills the brain and makes one think things that they normally would not (Prodanou 2). Life flight has to try to save the kids who drank, drove, and had a bad outcome (Flanagan 2). The life flight nurses have emotional scars when they have to try to save the kids (Flanagan