I propose that the best way to prevent deaths from drunk driving is to not get behind the wheel at all while intoxicated. Drunk driving is a serious matter that takes thousands of lives each year. One someone goes drunk driving and takes the life or injures the victim it’s not just the person who suffers but everyone around him/her. There are countless ways to prevent drunk driving but only work if we put them to play. Every 90 seconds someone is injured or killed (Impaired Driving). Drunk driving isn’t something that happens rarely but occurs every single day. Most of the time drunk driving victims aren’t even the people who are drinking. You could be driving from school or an event and get hit by someone who has been drinking. How awful
One of the most prominent aspect of the Great Depression was that the people of United States lost confidence in the banking system and the banking crises of the 1933 followed. Until 1930s, unregulated banking system existed with the notion that increased competition would make the market more efficient increasing the consumer choice base and thus would promote resource allocation and growth. Since people at that time weren’t too supportive of centralization, there was division of power and all the states and regions had their own banks to mobilize resources and carry out investments. This led to increasing competition to attract the same resources which escalated the rates offered to depositors and induced lenders to invest in high return, high risk areas. As a result, the financial system became fragile and there were frequent mortgage
Drinking and driving causes harm too many people throughout the world. For example, “in 2013, ten thousand seventy- six people died in drunk driving crashes - one every fifty-
Drunk driving is an epidemic that continues to have severe and life threatening consequences for those involved, if we simply take a few steps against drunk driving we can help decrease this epidemic.
Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is a step of the quantity of alcohol in the blood, revealed as a portion by volume. Connections in between the quantity of alcohol in the blood and the resulting quantity of alcohol in the breath have actually been made. Based on elements noted above, an individual's blood: breath alcohol ratio can differ from 1700:1 to
My 2018 Spring Break was better than usual and began with a great start. For this Spring Break, I went on a Road Trip to visit different college campuses on the northern side of California, a place I had never been to. I went with my program called, LACC Upward Bound that included 34 other students. I did not attend this trip alone and this was great because my friends got to come along on this great experience with me. Arriving to Northern California took about 4- 5 hours and during this drive I took this picture. It is so different from Los Angeles, everything is much greener, beautiful and natural. Our first location was Santa Cruz and the college we visited was UC Santa Cruz. On our way there, I saw many animals like cows, horses, sheeps,
There are things we can and must do to prevent drunk driving as much as we can and eventually completely cut it out. We have to look at the facts and statics and not let those around us, our friends, our families become victims of drunk driving. Weather they’re the ones that take part in driving under the influence or are killed or injured even though sober due to someone else’s selfish drunk driving actions there has got to be a stop to all of this. Laws can only do so much, it’s up to us to decide to take part in no drinking and driving. It is not a good feeling to see headlines talking about collisions or fatalities that occurred due to drunk driving and the feeling is even worse when you personally know the people involved. Let’s keep drunk driving from happening, let’s help put a stop to those stories you hear that were caused by people driving under the influence. In this time and age there is no excuse for drunk driving. WAKE UP, HELLO have a designated driver, call an Uber, a taxi, a reliable friend or family member, stay the night if you can at the place where you were drinking, anything just do anything but drink and
In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in drunk driving incidents. Out of those people, 65% (6,515) were drivers, 27% (2,724) were passengers, and 8% (837) were non-passengers (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). Over half of those fatalities (67.1%) involved blood alcohol levels over .15% (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). The legal blood-alcohol content is .08%. Drunk driving caused 31% of deaths in car crashes in 2013 (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). In 2012, 402 people were killed by alcohol impairment in North Carolina (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). These numbers, though they seem astonishing, have been cut in half since 1991 (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). Even though the number of fatalities has been lowered, that number is not low enough. Most drunk drivers are repeat offenders. Lives are being taken because of the careless attitude of the drunk drivers. Drunk driving is selfish; those who commit this crime do not think about the extreme consequences of their actions. In North America it is estimated that 1-5 drivers has been drinking and 1 in 10 is legally impaired on any Friday or Saturday night (Root). Many groups, including MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), are fighting to stop drunk driving. Unfortunately, drunk driving cannot be stopped. People will always commit this heinous crime. The numbers may go down, but unfortunately there will always be a number. The only way to continually decrease the amount of lives lost is to increase punishments for drunk driving.
The amount of drunk drivers that have been pulled or involved in accidents is shocking. According to statistics, in America, every 53 minutes one person is killed from an incident involving drunk driving, bringing the amount of people in America killed by drunk drivers to 27 people per day. Out of the entire world, it is estimated that someone is killed from drunk driving every 90 seconds. Even though drunk driving is not the number one cause of car crashes, it comes in third behind texting and speeding, it is still an epidemic that we need to
Every two minutes, a person is injured in a drunk driving crash. Collectively, people in the United States drive drunk more than 300,000 times in one day, yet only 4,000 are arrested. Not enough is being done to prevent people from driving under the influence and we need to change that. I think drunk drivers should be imprisoned on their first offense for three reasons. First, most drivers that are convicted of driving under the influence are repeat drivers. Second, people who drive drunk pose a serious threat to other drivers on the road. When someone becomes a victim of a drunk driving accidents, it also affects the lives of that person's loved ones. And lastly, without harsh consequences, people become desensitized to it and begin to act on the belief that it is acceptable behavior.
In Acts 7:22, it is said that “Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians…”. Yet, it can be pointed out that Moses did not incorporate the pagan medical practices of the Egyptians (or of any other nation) into the Pentateuch. Instead, the Israelites were a unique nation, and were light years ahead of other civilizations of that time and even many years to follow in regard to their public health and personal hygiene knowledge. Here are a few examples of their health laws: Leviticus 11:9-12 – Could only eat fish those water animals that had fins and scales. Leviticus 13:11, 31 – Quarantine for leprosy.
Drunk driving is considered a serious crime in every state. It is wrong, irresponsible and wastes many lives. People who abuse alcohol hurt everyone around them, endanger public safety, and create carnage on the nation's highways. There is nothing positive that can come out of drunk driving, so why do people do it? It is society's job to punish these menaces and try to take control of this out of control issue. America doesn't want to watch idly as hundreds of people are killed each day. We want to take a stand and let the world know that we may be the 'land of the free and the brave' but there is nothing brave or free about driving drunk. What should be done about this problem is debatable and certainly open to discussion, but the first
Every 53 minutes in America, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash. That equates to 27 people every day. Someone is injured in a drunk driving incident every 120 seconds. On average many will drive 80 times under influence before anyone will get caught and arrested. Some may think drunk
“Have one drink for the road” was, until recently, a commonly used phrase in American culture. It has only been within the past 20 years that as a nation, we have begun to recognize the dangers associated with drunk driving (Sutton 463). According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, this year 519,000 people, or one person per minute, will be injured in alcohol-related accidents. 10,839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes this year – that is one death every 50 minutes. The heartbreaking part is, every injury and lost life due to driving after drinking can be prevented. Drinking while driving “accidents” are not merely “accidents.” Getting in a vehicle after consuming alcohol, which severely affects the function of
Approximately one million people are injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes every year and young people, ages 16 to 24 are involved in 28% of those alcohol-related driving accidents, although they make up only 14% of the U.S. population. On any given weekend evening, one in 10 drivers on America's roads has been drinking and according to the latest statistics, in a family of five the prospect of you or someone in your family being involved in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident in their lifetime, is an astounding 200 percent. That's a lot of tragic, meaningless deaths that could actually have been avoided.
If you drink and drive, you are not only a danger to yourself but also to your passenger, other road users and pedestrians. In fact, every 30 minutes, someone in this country dies in alcohol-related crash. Every 30 minutes! And last year alone more than one million people are injured in