Remove Intoxicated Drivers

such as robbery, sexual assault, and homicide. When alcohol is present, situations often result in terrible consequences. Alcohol alone is dangerous. But what happens when irresponsible drinking meets driving? When a person gets behind the wheel intoxicated and decides it is okay to kill? Sadly, this happens every night. Over the years, there have…

Driving is a privilege and once an individual have earned their driver license it should be up to the operator of the vehicle to drive safe and make it a priority. In this paper I will discuss the safety of driving in the winter and summer months. There will be different types of weather conditions for both seasons, vehicles will need good mechanical work periodically to check for maintenance for both seasons, and the operator of the vehicle should always operate the vehicle properly and…

injuries. There are two laws on seat belts that have been passed by the state of Oklahoma. In the United States the average ticket for not buckling up is 250 dollars. Then in 2003 Illinois passed a law that allowed police officers to pull a driver for not buckling up, they handed out 43,000 more tickets and the use of seatbelts went up nine percent. In 1974 they changed from a lap belt to a chest and lap belt that we have today. The Safety Belt Performance grant has given states up to 100…

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 drivers think that they make the logical decisions, but ironically, they’re the…

Why Teens Should Have Curfews Imagine your child is driving or walking home after curfew and they are involved in a car wreck or attacked. If only they had come back when they should have, they would be safely at home and able to happily live their life with you. Teenagers should have curfews because first, when driving at night you are more likely to be involved in a car accident, and second, many criminals commit their crimes during the night rather than during the day. To begin, when driving…

under the influence: 1. A Life Isn’t Worth Gambling For According to the DUI Foundation, each year, Americans take over 159 million alcohol impaired trips. 10 percent of which are made up by drivers under the legal drinking age. It’s also important to note that, when the…

To start off, we all know drinking and driving negatively affect those all around, including the drunk driver and those near the drunk driver. Even though we all know how serious drinking and driving is, it is important to know the statistics of drinking and driving to fully comprehend just how dangerous it actually is. In 2016, 10,265 people died in crashes that involved drunk drivers. In 2016, an average of 28 people in the United States of America died in a car crash that involved a person…

among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2014, 209(19%) involved an alcohol impaired driver. Of the 209 child passengers, over half (116) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver. (CDC, 2017) Charges range from misdemeanors to felony offenses, and penalties for impaired driving can include driver’s license revocation, fines, and jail time. It’s also extremely expensive. A first-time offense can the driver cost upwards of $20,000 in fines and legal fees. Some states also require…

“We all make mistakes” in our life we all have heard this, but what happen when that mistake takes a life. Jessica Leslie made a mistake like that, because she was drinking and driving she ended a life. Driving is a serious matter, it is a privilege and while drinking is legal for those over 21, it is illegal to drink and drive. Jessica mistakes can never be fix, how she felt and how her recklessness change the life of a family forever is something that she will have to carry for the rest of her…

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…