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    said the following about drunk driving, “In a split second you could ruin your future, injure, or kill others, and tear a hole in the heart everyone you love.’’If you drink and drive you will put everyone around you in danger. The reason I’m doing a essay about drunk driving is because according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 27 people die each day from drunk driving. Drunk driving can ruin your life, cause injury and can kill. Drunk Driving is when one person is driving a car while…

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    car accident due to drunk driving, you never know. Statistics show that every 51 minutes an individual in the United States dies due to a drunk driver. This means that 28 people die every day, to alcohol related car crashes daily. Statistics also show that chances are one in every three individuals will be involved with an alcohol related crash. Now, the question is, what are you going to do about these numbers? If each of you takes a stand in the fight against drinking and driving, the world…

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    Drunk driving is no laughing matter. Drivers with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher in the state of Illinois are considered alcohol- impaired by the law. Unfortunately, the threat of breaking the law does not prevent drunk driving. An average drunk driver has driven drunk 80 times before first arrest (Centers for Disease Control). The consequences of drunk driving affects more than the offender. One encounter with a drunk driver can shatter an entire family’s life. Not one…

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    Driving While Intoxicated and Its Consequences Most people don’t know how bad it really is to drive while under the influence of alcohol. Some might say, “I’m not that drunk, I can drive,” but can they? Many effects could come from drunk driving, but there’s only one way to cause it. Although everyone in the world knows that driving while intoxicated is a very dangerous predicament, people still make the wrong decision and end up causing significant harm to themselves and/or to the drivers…

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    Have you ever thought about how safer the road would be with no drunk drivers? Alcohol-related to crashes that lead to many Americans death from the age 16 to 24. The use of alcohol has a high risk of having problems, for example becoming addicted to alcohol, ending someone’s life including yours, and also ending in a terrible place. Drinking and Driving is dangerous, because not only does it cost your life, but also the lives of innocent people. Becoming an addicted to…

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    Lerner’s book discussed the matters on drunk driving and how they can affect people’s lives. In the summary I found in Collins library as stated in the citation above, he reports factual evidence and statistics to show both sides of people who argue with drunk driving and those who said the problem was, “Exaggerated and overregulated.” The debate continues with both sides stating why and why not they agree and disagree with the matter of people driving drunk. Should they continue regulating…

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    lose a family member to a drunk driver. Drinking and driving should not happen in the United States. Bars should take more actions, people need to plan ahead of time before going out and learn to limit themselves on how many drinks and money spent or the people should start a program for people just turning twenty one on drinking and driving and the consequences. Most people do not realize the great risk of drunk driving to ones life or others. Take more time to look at driving under the…

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    “In 2015, 10,265 people died in drunk driving crashes - one every 51 minutes - and 290,000 were injured in drunk driving crashes” (Kaufman 866). That means that every 51 minutes someone loses a family member to the detrimental effects of drunk driving, a social and economic issue that costs the United States over $270 billion annually. While it is impossible to completely end DWI’s, there is a preventative solution that can dramatically lower the rates of drunk driving, so instead of locking…

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    6. Drunk driving can be stopped. One thing I know about people is that a lot of people always use the term “Don’t start because it’ll be hard to stop”… nothing is that hard to just simply stop doing. I know we’ve all smelled dishwashing liquid and at some point when most of us as kids tasted it and it was the worst taste ever. We’ve never tried it again. Same for driving drunk or drinking in general. It can all be stopped. People don’t want to stop because most people just do it because they…

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    Both of the videos that were shown in class deal with drinking and driving or texting and driving and the major negative consequences that they can lead to. In the video “Coppell Shattered Dreams 2017” it talks about how all of the little moments in your life lead you to one life altering moment. The teenagers in the video lived ordinary lives, they attended school as high school seniors, hanged out with friends, imagined and planned what prom would be like. Overall, they experienced the high…

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