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Noah Count was driving his Ford Escape home from a bar, when he struck a tree and the passenger compartment collapsed causing him serious injured. He sued Ford on the grounds that his car was not crashworthy, and he sued the bar for selling him the alcohol. Unfortunately, Noah Count had a blood alcohol content of 0.15%, which is twice the legal limit. In all states, the legal limit is defined as 0.08% (DUI & DWI in South Carolina, n.d.). Therefore, Noah Count was driving illegally at the time…

that came with human nature. There are chilling statistics about driving under influence, and terrible stories. There were nearly twenty thousand traffic fatalities in 1995 due to alcohol, and 300 thousand people injured due to alcohol (Hingston 1). Once again, this was 1990 and it is the 21st century. There was once a case of a man named Duncan Smith. Duncan Smith only had two alcoholic drinks and was still driving under the influence. He’d passed all of his sobriety tests, but his BAC levels…

Driving down the highway. CRASH, a body flies across the center line. A scene that happens more than people may think. The first automobile was made in 1886, many say that Karl Benz was the first person to produce the first car. In the United States, the Ford motor company first started mass production of cars for the people in 1908. The first law about seatbelts was signed in 1958 by Congress that every car had to have a seat belt manufactured in them. Seat belts should be worn while in a…

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…

poodle while John got home safely. I ask myself this, who is morally worse? In this circumstance, both John and Pat are both victims of Moral Luck. In the majority of cases, Pat is morally worse than John because he hit a dog while he remained driving under the influence of alcohol. If he only would’ve drunk…

Most people understand that police officers and other emergency responders do dangerous jobs at times. This work becomes even more dangerous when police officers or other emergency responders have to stop on the side of busy roads. Since 1999, over 200 law enforcement officers have been struck and killed by vehicles. Along with that, paramedics, tow truck drivers, and others who need to get out of their vehicles to help people along busy roadways have been hurt or killed when they were hit by a…

In the story "The Accident," by Murong Xuecun, there is one character in particular whose name is Old Wei that I can relate to. We all encounter accidents whether we see them coming or not. Car accidents are common throughout the year, across the country. I have experience being in a car accident before just like Old Wei has. My first reaction was just like he said, "My mind went blank and I stopped the car. Night was falling and a hubbub surrounded the scene of the accident." After the car…

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…

Recent studies show that every thirty minutes, an average of one alcohol-related fatality occurs. Along with one person injured approximately every two minutes.” (Repeat Drunk Drivers Should Be Severely Punished, 109) “In 2009, drunk drivers in the United States caused 10,839 deaths. This number represents almost one-third of all traffic related deaths that year.” (Drunk Driving, 1). According to a recorded study, in 2009 the use of drugs or alcohol while driving resulted in 1.4 million…

A recently married couple was driving on the freeway when a drunken woman hit their car. The husband was killed in this tragic accident. This incident could have easily been avoided if that woman had made one simple choice, to not drink and drive. This is just one person’s story out of the millions affected by drunk driving. Drunk driving not only affects the victim, but it also affects the driver. Some drunk drivers are killed because of their foolish actions. On January 15, 2000 Chris and two…