Investigating The Level Of Licence Held By Drivers And How This Influences The Overall Number Of Fatalities Within Queensland

Drinking and driving is said to be the primary contributor to automotive related deaths. “By law, a driver is considered to be impaired by alcohol if his or her blood alcohol content is 0.08 percent or higher” (Holzmueller). As a matter of fact, “in 2010, about 86 percent of all fatalities alcohol-involved crashes were in cases where a driver or pedestrian had a BAC of .08 or higher” (“The Economic and Societal Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2010” 147). Laws and penalties have been created and applied in recent years that make it more difficult to get away with drinking and driving. If drivers are charged with alcohol-impaired driving, “they face suspension or revocation of their license” (Holzmueller).

III. Credibility- I found these statistics along with other information on drivinglaws.org and various other sites.

As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years, upon this important subject, and maturely weighed the several schemes of our projectors, I have always found them grossly mistaken in their computation. It is true. There are not enough drivers who drive under the influence. In the year 2001, MADD Online approximated that only one in ten drivers, a mere 25 million, drove drunk, and, consequently these drivers were the ones significantly more likely to be involved in a crash of some sort, but why shouldn’t we level the playing field? (1)

Each year numerous lives are lost due to careless and irrational driving. The disregard for safe driving has been a predicament to the United States of America for years. Many years Police have relied heavily on speed cameras, breathalyzer tests and heavy fines as a deterrent against unlawful drivers. Over the years fatality rates have increased, so the Department of Transportation and Highway Safety has composed a series of safe driving campaigns. On many occasions the Transportation Department informs and advises the public about the importance of responsible driving. They propagate safe driving through the various channels of the media and

Background and Audience Relevance: According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2015, about thirty-five hundred people were killed, and four hundred thousand were injured in car crashes.

In “Auto Insurance and Traffic Fatalities”, David (2015) examined the effect of drivers who are insured and uninsured on road safety. “The Effect of Automobile Insurance and Accident Liability Laws on Traffic Fatalities” (NBER Working Paper No. 9602) were used to measure the no-fault limits. He said drivers who remained uninsured will drove more cautiously because fear of being in an accident, so their number of fatalities will lower than the drivers who have insurance. The drivers who forced to buy insurance and now facing diminish

David Penberthy’s article ‘Wrinklies have overtaken the hoons as the highest road death category’ (The Advertiser, September 4, 2014, p. 13) is charming but manipulative. Penberthy argues that abolishing the over seventies mandatory drivers license medical testing will endanger road safety. The title indicates that his intended audience is neither ‘hoons’ nor ‘wrinklies’; therefore falling between the ages of thirty and sixty-five. Penberthy’s article is an anecdotal lead that hooks the reader in from the beginning with a strong quote. He highlights the dangers and the changes in the new road laws. Penberthy writes with a persuasive and alarmist purpose against these new laws. The three pathos devices that are particularly persuasive, and the focus of this essay are anecdote, tone and his use of evidence.

A variety of risks are involved with driving a vehicle; one of the most important risks associated with driving is impairment. Impaired driving is one the problems that has been a criminal act in Canada since 1921(statcan). Individuals who drive vehicles while under the influence of drugs and alcohol present themselves immediate danger through lack of attention and a rise in unsafe driving practices. Furthermore, impairment also presents drivers increased chances of receiving tickets which pose additional financial issues. Impaired driving can include the use of marijuana, prescription drugs, non-prescribed drugs and alcohol. "Impaired driving is the leading cause of death on highways. Police patrols can reduce road accidents, provided they are effective"(Dionne, 2006). Studies focusing on higher police patrol presence and road blocks have data concluding the positive effects on the communities that are a part of the plan to reduce drinking and driving. Although drinking and driving had steadily been on the decline for the past 25 years there was a small rise from 2006 to 2011.(statcan). The fight against drinking and driving has led to

1. I would like to start by just stating a few statistics related to drunk driving.

It is important to note that when the authors analyzed data from this source they did not separate fatal accidents involving drunk driving from accidents that did not pertain to drunk driving as to minimize the influence of outside factors like the bias of a police officer. The authors then used this data to look at trends in fatal accident rates on both Sunday’s and weekdays in states that either repealed their blue laws between 1900 and 2009, states that still had blue laws during that time period and states that either never had blue laws or repealed prior to 1990. Upon looking at these trends, the authors did not discover any major changes in the fatal accident rates on Sunday in states that repealed their Blue laws. The only notable evidence to support a claim that the repeal of Blue laws leads to more fatal accidents on Sunday was the fact that in repeal states Sunday crash rates “remained constant until 2006” while their weekday fatal accident crash rates had decreased in the late 1990’s (2011, 807-8). Yet this does not suggest that the repeal of Blue laws caused this as the same relative trend occurred in states that never had Blue laws which signifies that the trend was not caused by the repeal of Blue laws. Additionally, in repeal states their fatal accident rates on both Sunday and on weekdays had a general downward trend with the only difference being that the weekdays fatal accident rate decreased at a slightly stronger rate. This led the authors to conclude that Blue laws have “at most a small effect on fatal accidents” as there were no significant changes in the fatal accident rates to support that claim (2011, 808). Finally, the authors used the same data set to demonstrate that the repealing of Blue laws did not have any significant effect on the fatal accident rates

In the United States, Reckless driving is the number one cause of teenage death in the nation. Reckless driving can be classified as anything from speeding and swerving, to purposely trying to run someone over, or hurt them while driving. In America, there are countless organizations calling to help end the high death rate in teenagers that reckless driving takes. People such as Parents, Drivers Education Instructors and even state legislators have realized the problem and are seeking reform. In 2011 alone 2,650 teens between the ages of 16-19 were killed due to reckless driving. (CDC) Reckless driving is a death that is very preventable, with proper education and warning. As well as problem that is not taken seriously by the juvenile’s committing the act. Most juveniles don’t worry what so ever about dying in a car crash because they think that it won’t happen to them. Under Reckless Driving, in Green Bay, speeding, not paying attention and lack of caring are three of the biggest issues with teen drivers and juveniles.

Would people rather take it easy on alcohol, or drive drunk with the risk of taking someone’s life? Drunk driving is a crime when someone drives a car with alcohol in their blood. When someone is caught, they receive a DUI, which stands for Driving Under the Influence. Right now, all the states in the United States Have a 0.08% cap (Lee). Many people ask if tougher DUI laws should be enacted. The threat of severe penalties will deter people from drinking and driving and save many lives.

After retaining the null hypothesis, other potential factors were analyzed in the comparative case study by trying to isolate specific difference between states and trying to figure out if they were relevant. In order to do this New York and Wyoming were selected as the case studies as they demonstrated the lack of evidence in support of the alternative hypothesis and their comparison led to two very interesting implication. The first highlighted the lack of influence of socio economics on drunk driving at least in terms of the effect of per capita income on the drunk driving death rate. Although it was not predicted in what ways, socioeconomic would affect drunk driving, it is very interesting to note that per capita income, given how close

For this we use the US traffic fatalities panel data for the 48 US states (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) for 1982 through 1988. We observe our data in 7 time periods (1982,…,1988), so T=7, our data are strongly balanced and the total number of observation equals 336 (=7*48). We calculate the traffic fatality rate that equals the traffic deaths in the corresponding state in that year, per 10000 state residents.

“Alcohol related crashes kills someone in the U.S. every 22 minutes. At any minute, one of 50 drivers on the road is drunk and every weekend night, one out of 10 is drunk.(Kypri, 1994).” This quote means In United State, every 22 minutes there was a person killed by car accident involving alcohol. One of 50 drivers on the road was drunk at any minute; one of 10 is drunk in weekend night. The quote shows the number of traffic fatalities annually related to alcohol, do you realized what does those numbers truly represented? Those are the examples of drunk drive that got people killed in the life.