Drunk Driving Problem Analysis

Drunk driving in the U.S. is a major problem that to this day has not been addressed to the extent that it needs to be addressed in order for it to be considered mitigated. In 2014, a total of “9,967 people” were killed as a result alcohol impaired driving, although the total number of fatalities as a result of alcohol impaired driving, the problem is yet to be solved (NHTSA, Page 1-2). Sadly there is yet be a clear solution to the drunk driving problem in the U.S. and in an attempts to fix this a lot of states have tried to figure out ways to remedy the situation. The solutions attempted range from trying to teach students in schools especially with programs like Every 15 minutes in which people are supposed to see the true horror of drunk

Interestingly, the research does not support this hypothesis but rather there is no statistically significant evidence to suggest that creating stricter drunk driving laws reduce the rate of drunk driving fatalities. To demonstrate this further this paper will also look at a case study of the states of Wyoming and New York and highlight how there are other factors that play a bigger role in drunk driving than

First, when discussing drunk driving in the U.S., it is important to define what drunk driving is in the U.S. and for the U.S. it is the act of operating a vehicle while a person’s blood alcohol content is above .08 which is how much alcohol is present in 100 milliliters of blood so .08 is 80 milligrams of .08 grams thus showing how it works (Department of Transportation- Motor Vehicle Association 2016). In all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, driving while above the legal limit and the limit is universal to all states as it is set at .08 which means that your blood cannot have a content of alcohol above .8%. However, this is where the agreement of states ends as after making it illegal states have completely different rules on drunk driving in which some states are harsher on all people caught drunk driving while other states have extremely loose laws that do not issue severe punishment to people who are caught driving above the legal limit. This is one of the many reasons that all states do not have relatively the same amount of fatalities as a result of drunk driving. For in each state there are countless factors that are at play that affect whether or not people decide to drive