Persuasive Speech About Drinking And Driving

Imagine this. It’s the weekend, you have nothing planned but to just sit at home and watch T.V. Your sister gets invited to a party but her friend invited her to spend the night, your parents don’t really like the party idea at all but allows her to go stay the night at her friends instead. Your sister goes to the party instead. Just imagine waking up in the middle of the night to your parents crying, hearing your mom cry and yell. You run downstairs and find out that your sister has been in a car accident and was also drinking and driving. Your sister, who was only eighteen is pronounced dead. She had her whole life ahead of her, but it's ruined all because she went to the party, got drunk, and decided it was okay to drive. How would you

According to texting and driving statistics, every year, around 330,000 people die every year from texting and driving. This is around half of all the people who pick up their phones in the first place. Being on your phone draws your attention from the road, to your phone. Doisomething.org states, “When you text and drive you are 23 times more likely to get into a crash.” All it takes is a simple act of not watching the road. Being unaware while driving can put you, and other's lives at risk or injury or even death. This can affect your future, others around you, your friends, and your family. Texting and driving is a very big deal. Don't Text Drive states “5 seconds is the minimal amount of time a driver takes their eyes off the road. If you are traveling at 55 miles an hour, this would equal the length of a football field of not

Texting and driving is something that causes many accidents on the roads. Everyone knows that texting and driving is wrong and could cause an accident. Since that texting and driving is a potentially dangerous behavior, that every single driver behind the wheel knows, but does I anyways because of the deviant behavior and mindset towards texting and driving. When you text and drive you are knowingly taking a risk of an accident because of how texting distracts a person from driving properly.

1.Don’t Drink and Drive! I’m sure everyone has heard this expression before. However, it really is important and people need to start taking it more seriously. Not only can this topic affect many people, it can also affect your life personally.

Specific Purpose. The purpose of this speech is to inform students about negative consequences of the drunk driving.

The most dangerous between texting while driving and driving under the influence is texting while driving. From 2002 to 2011, driving while intoxicated numbers went down and texting while driving numbers went up (Oberman). Texting while operating a vehicle raises the risk eight times higher to cause a wreck. If people choose drinking and driving, it raises the risk four times higher to cause a wreck (Driving). When people drive out on the roads doing either drinking while driving or texting while driving, a crash could occur at any time. People texting and driving makes themselves take their eyes off the road longer because people focus on the message received and try to think of what the response message will say. Drunk drivers usually tend to speed up or slow down, while texters tend to swerve across the centerline (Texting). A person

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.

We know that if we drink and drive we get in a lot of trouble, just as DWI the same thing would happen with texting while driving, knowing the consequences we would think twice before doing it.

CDC’s systematic review of 11 high-quality studies found that checkpoints reduce alcohol-related fatal, injury, and property damage crashes each by about 20 percent

Every day, an average 11 teenagers will die from a car accident where the cause of the accident was due to texting and driving according to Luke Ameen in his article “The 25 Scariest Texting and Driving Accident Statistics” on the website icebike.org (Ameen, 2017).

In 2011, 1.3 million automobile accidents were caused by texting and driving. Texting and driving make you 23 % more likely to be involved in an accident. It is a result of 1.6 million crashes each year. This can be resolved by increasing awareness of the negative effects of driving while texting. Another challenge faced by young adults is eating or drinking while driving.

Students will be told that they will be learning about Alcohol and the dangers of consumption it has on the body and brain. Alcohol is a substance that is legal for adults to drink. However, many people have certain beliefs about what it will do for us.

In June there was an accident involving the deaths of five teenage girls. The driver was believed to be texting when they crashed into a tractor-trailer. I believe there should be a serious law to keep both teen and adult drivers from driving while texting. If there are laws passed to prevent this, many people can be saved from having car accidents or near misses. The driver is not the only one affected either, if they hit someone that person is affected as well. The texting law would be for personal safety and the safety of others.

A fun night out may start out with a few drinks with friends. The mood is lifted and everyone is having a great time, then the night itself reaches an ending point. Everyone wants to have a safe drive home, but whose car is really safe to be in? This topic has a affected my life personally from experiencing loss of friends that were drinking and driving. In 2010, ABRAMET released a series of ad campaigns in the United States, in order to spread awareness of the dangers drinking and driving.

Last May, my coworker Alex was killed by a 17 year old drunk driver on his way to visit family. Everyone, including myself spent months greiving the loss of someone we consedered family. After losing someone I loved so dearly I decided to make a change instead of sitting around mourning my friend.