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In 2010, nearly 10,000 people were killed due to drunk driving accidents, which accounts for close to thirty-one percent of motor vehicle fatalities in that year. When was the last time you heard anything about one’s alcohol consumption killing someone? Not frequently enough, in fact, there are an average of 115 people killed daily due to someone's choice to drink irresponsibly, but society fails to emphasize the impact drunk driving has on America. Alcohol is something seriously abused within…

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…

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…

Drinking and Driving has become a huge issue in the state of Texas. Most likely 75% of the people who drive are drunk drivers. At this rate nobody wants to drive because of fear.If we can change our society and the number of death rates would decrease.Let's make a stand together and change our society. Changing this issue would decrease the number of death rates. In 2015, 10,265 people died due to alcohol impaired driving.…

1. Do federally compliant open container laws affect drunk drinking - Leah She has a very interesting topic about the effect of the open container laws on the crash percentage, which could potentially has a lot of policy implications at the end. I like how she approached her hypothesis with a set of panel data with a good time range (1998 - 2006). I think that this project is more complicated than the average, since panel data was the last topic covered in class. She has colorful graphs, and a…

The number of deaths in the state of Texas from the years 2003-2012 landed at a whopping 13,138. One may ask what the cause could possibly be? Drunk Driving. Every 30 minutes someone in this country dies in an alcohol related crash. There are many organizations that were created to try to put an end to this epidemic, some of these being: MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), TADD (Teens Against Drunk Driving), IDDPA (International Drunk Driving Prevention Association) and many more. If there are…

Driving is a privilege and it should be treated as such. As year by year deadly car accidents happen like clockwork, drinking seems to play a major role in most of the cases but there are various ways to fight back and decrease the fatalities. First and foremost, as an individual you should always refuse to ride along with a drunk driver; as well as never decide to get behind the wheel no matter how close or how badly you need to be somewhere. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention…

State of Minnesota Crash Facts for 2015 Throughout the United States, the total number of crashes varies from state to state. Within the decade, millions of people have died in a car wreck and millions sustained serious injuries that affect their quality of life. A single car crash has many contributing factors. Over 400 people lost their lives on the roads and highways of the State of Minnesota in 2015. 29,981 sustained injuries. For the last decade, over 4,100 died and experience…

Have you recently been involved in a motorcycle accident? Are you worried that the insurance company might not be willing to pay you everything you deserve? No matter whether it was you or the other driver who was on the motorcycle at the time of the accident, dealing with insurance companies may seem like a confusing new career. Fortunately, you can always hire a motorcycle accident attorney to take care of everything for you. But instead of simply hiring whomever has the first entry in the…

The 1950’s were a great time for science fiction and with it driverless cars were thought of in this period. They would do all the driving for you and you wouldn’t have to worry about anything. Well today, 65 years later, they became a reality with companies like Tesla, Google, Mercedes Benz, and Audi leading the way in autonomous technology. The debate today is whether they should be on roads or not. Driverless cars are the future to our roads because they would reduce human error, they would…