Do you know someone who drinks? Do you know if they drink and drive? Haveyou ever heard them say that it 's only one beer and they are fine to drive home? Theyare so very wrong. It only takes alcohol about 20 to 40 minutes to reach your brain.When someone drinks, their judgement if the first thing to be affected by the alcohol. In the video "Life Affected (MADD)," Michelle lost her husband due to a drunk driver. They were driving on the freeway, and a drunk driver decided to get on the freeway as well.She had been to a couple of bars before getting into the car, but when she got on the freeway, she got on the off ramp. She was headed the wrong way on the freeway, and hit head on with Michelle 's car. Not only did this accident affect Michelle …show more content…
The drunk 's family would have to deal with whatever punishment was chosen. In this same video, a family was on their way to a play when they were hit by a drunk driver. The young parents had two children: a 2 and a half year old and a 4 month old. The mom of the children called her dad and said that her two children were being lifeflighted and she had to go to a different hospital. The 4 month old baby died at the hospital after the parents decided to take him off of life support. This affected the whole family. This little boy lost his baby brother, and the parents lost their baby child.To imagine making the decision to take your baby off of life support, knowing that he will not make it, and none of it was your fault.In conclusion, driving drunk does not just affect the driver that chose to drivedrunk. It affects the people they hit and sometimes kill. These people are innocent and didn 't chose to serve the consequences of the drunk. The drunk has to live with knowingthat they made a stupid decision and killed innocent people. Driving while drunk just isn 't worth it. It destroys families, kills children and parents, takes happiness away from innocent people, and builds a heavy conscience. It affects more than you think it will. Do not
This exact thing that happened to this young girl is a very fine example of why drinking and driving is against the law. Statistics say that everyday about 40 people die, and about 700 people are injured from drunk driving. This issue also shows how much driving is liability on the driver. Being the diver of the car, Taylor is somewhat liable for what happened to her friend Keayra. Many teenagers do not take driving as serious as is it should be taken.
Joey Feek is dealing with a hard battle with cancer and is now on hospice. Today her husband Rory went to their blog This Life I Live and shared a big update on how Joey is doing and how much he wants his life to be remembered when she is gone. Rory was sitting there watching his wife sleep as he wrote up a new blog. He shared that next to Joey 's bed they have pictures in frames, books and things that were selected by Joey and her sisters. Joey Feek recently had a walker brought to her home and Rory shared the story all about how this went down.
As well as tangible consequences, drinking and driving can also have emotional consequences, such as guilt and grief in the event that you carry out these actions at another human being’s expense. It is in your best interest to circumvent these actions to establish a safe setting for yourself and others. Driving sober will keep you alert and conscious of driving conditions so you can carry out the appropriate
The victims impact panel was through, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). The instructor was demanding, stern, and wanted all eyes to focus their attention to the video, power point, lecture, and the victim’s impact stories. At first, the way the instructor was speaking, made her appear as rude and very unpleasant to listen too. However, once she played the video and started getting into detail about what MADD is, and all the statistics on drunk driving made her tone of voice understandable. For instance, the instructor explained the mission of MADD, which is to eliminate drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking.
Informative Speech Outline: Driving while Intoxicated Specific Purpose Statement: To inform my audience the dangers of drinking and driving, and how it can affect you and your surroundings. Central Idea: Drinking and driving is extremely dangerous: you are at risk of hurting yourself, become a threat to others around you, you can get into some legal issues if you are stopped by a police officer. Introduction: It’s a Friday!
Drunk driving seems to be a black spot of our civilization. An average of 17,000 individuals die each year in drunk driving related accidents, and drunk driving continues to be an enormously important public safety issue (MADD). With lowering this drinking age we can only expect more cases of drunk driving and more lives are put in danger. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration estimates that about 900 lives are saved annually due to fewer alcohol-related traffic crashes involving underage drivers. Surely, it should be a priority for the society to minimize the death toll from drunk driving.
However, “90% of drunk driving deaths in the United States were found in the over 21 age group” (Gruenewald). For this reason, drunk driving is not directly correlated with the drinking age. In addition, the percent of drunk driving deaths in the United States has reduced at a slower rate than European countries where they have their legal drinking age at eighteen. This suggest that if lowering the drinking age was a success in Europe, it may also be effective here in the United States to diminish the amount of drunk driving deaths. This is because people that become injured due to alcohol or alcohol poisoning are afraid to report their injuries to the hospital or authorities out of fear of illegal consequences for underage drinking.
“If the legal age were lowered in the US it would have to come with much more education in this area, not just the shock-value of Every 15 Minutes” said Ulrike Skillman, math teacher at Saugus. Skillman suggests the lowering of the drinking age will have to come with more alcohol education and that is the exact purpose of a “drinking license.” Which would allow 18 year olds to consume alcohol, with strict regulations, then take classes to officially receive a “drinking license” at 21 years old. The license would replicate a driver’s license, but be geared toward consuming alcohol.
DRINKING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS, WHILE DRIVING, AND NORMAL, 4 IMMORAL, AND DEVIANT DRIVERS Drinking Among College Students, While Driving and Normal, Immoral, and Deviant Drunk Drivers People drink because they want to have a good time, they like the way it makes them Feel, or they just simply need a drink. Some people have become addicted to alcohol and they have let it take over their lives. Alcohol is something a lot of people abuse these days. Alcohol is strongly used among college students and while driving. I am also going to tell you about the difference among normal, immoral, and deviant drunk drivers.
Drunk driving is not something that happens occasionally. It happens everyday of the year. A lot of times, drunk driving victims aren’t the ones who have been drinking. They could be driving home from work one day and get hit by someone who has been drinking.
DUI By:Jaskaran You’re outside with your friends having fun and drinking, but its time to go home. You crashed your car because you were drunk and you just killed some innocent pedestrian also now have to pay for your car and go to jail. This is drinking and driving and I am here to tell you why it is bad and you should stop.
Americans know the dangers of getting behind the wheel while intoxicated. When alcohol enters the human body it impairs your judgement. Your speech begins to slur, the overall control you have on your body vanish because your balance and flow are altered by the alcohol entering your bloodstream. But yet the court systems lets them off with a simple slap on the wrist , like a mother to a child. What happens when that “first time offender” , loses their sense of knowledge of how to drive a car.
Drinking while driving not only affects the driver himself, his family and also passengers that may be riding with him and this person's family as well. And not to mention the other people and pedestrians that are on the road. When a person becomes a fatality they are not just a victim, their families suffer
I know when the holidays or big events come to the city the police try to increase the patrolling to keep drunk drivers off the street. There are too many people out there drinking and driving for the police to catch them all. . Maybe if they drive with more caution, they have less chances of being stopped by the police. I do know that having a DWI on your license can cause you to pay a lot of big fines and also
Once drunk driving can come to an end, more people will feel safer to drive everyday. Drunk driving causes thousands of deaths per year because each day, someone does not think as they step on the gas pedal. Driving while intoxicated causes problems that not only affect the victim lives, but the future of the drunk driver’s life as well. Drunk driving was the main cause in the death of one of the world 's most famous and beloved people in 1997.