Drunk driving in the United States

Laws against driving under the influence are created to save lives; however, even harsher laws may decrease the number of accidents. Everyday, people attempt to drink and drive while the lives in the car next to them are at risk and they would have no idea. Not having harsh enough laws established for drinking and driving can end up causing more harm because people who don’t get caught will do it again, it can cause damage to those involved, and it takes away from first responders of their…

was driving her and four friends home from a birthday party. Then suddenly, a boy named Reggie Stephey drifted over the center lane and crashed into Bennett’s car. Stephey had been drinking that night with his friends and thought he was capable driving home under the influence of alcohol. He obviously was not capable. Stephey planned on attending college with an athletic scholarship. Instead, he was charged with “two counts of intoxication manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in the state…

No one wants to face the prospect of finding a DUI attorney. But unfortunately, many people find themselves in the position of driving while intoxicated. The legal limit for blood-alcohol content is .08% or higher. Many people may find their blood-alcohol content at that level with just a couple of drinks. A simple mistake such as driving home after a few drinks could result in a DUI charge. If you've been stopped for a DUI, you need to find the services of a DUI attorney. But how do select an…

Drunk driving is a dangerous, irresponsible and illegal act, and can affect many people's’ lives. Drunk driving increases the chances that the driver will be involved in an accident, which in turn puts other drivers and any passengers riding with them at risk of becoming injured. Drunk drivers’ judgement is impaired, and their ability to react to their surroundings greatly suffers as a result. All people are affected by drunk driving, because driving drunk is not only harmful to the drunk driver…

One Drink Is All It Takes Drinking and driving causes an average of 28 deaths daily across America, that is one death every 53 minutes. These deaths are caused by people who disregard the safety of themselves and everyone around them. Most drivers forget the gravity of the act of driving a car. Operating a motor vehicle is essentially strapping into a several thousand pound bomb and hurling it down the road at incredibly high speeds and steering it through various…

Drinking and Driving The drunk driving law in the State of Michigan makes it illegal to drive with a .08 percentage blood alcohol concentration or above. In 2013, there was a total of 35,534 DUI arrests in Michigan. (Head) It is against the law to drive while intoxicated, why do people still choose to have one too many drinks in their system before they get on the road? Drivers should be more responsible, drivers should think about the costs driving and driving could cause them, and the police…

Drinking and driving has taken many lives. The people that are drunk lose their lives, but also those innocent people who couldn’t prevent the accident and weren’t drinking. These people can’t prevent these accidents and are killed or injured because of someone else’s carelessness. That’s why we invented the horizontal gaze starter to save more of those lives. Since one of the tests, when someone is pulled over because of suspicious drunk driving, is the horizontal gaze test, why not use it…

Drunk driving accidents are all too common in Northwest Arkansas, and throughout the state, and often result in serious injuries or death. In fact, 24 percent of all traffic fatalities across the state in 2013 were alcohol related, according to the Arkansas State Police. In order to avoid being involved in these types of collisions, motorists can refrain from drinking and driving. However, there is no way to guarantee that others have done the same. Thus, it behooves drivers to know the signs of…

It is the time that we put drunk driving on the brakes. Drunk driving is a very large problem, and has been for a very long while. In fact, “In 1995 more than 1.4 million people were arrested for driving while intoxicated, nearly 10 percent of all arrests made that year (Hingston 1).” Now think about how those statistics have changed over the years. My invention is the Steering Sober. It is a sleeve for the steering wheel that measures BAC levels and fingerprint to prevent carjacking and DUI.…

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…