Persuasive Speech On Drunk Driving

If a person consumes alcohol to the point they are unable to safely control an automobile and still make the choice to get behind the wheel resulting in a collision causing death, I believe they should, at least, be charged with second-degree murder. If a person with a history of driving drunk kills while drunk, they should be required to serve their time in jail (a long time, I hope) in solitary confinement. Driving under the influence, commonly known as "drunk driving” which refers to driving a motor vehicle while one's blood alcohol content is above the legal limit. Alcohol hinders your ability to react quickly, make proper judgments, and drive as well as you usually do. Social and Environmental Influences are factors that can contribute to alcohol impairment while driving which often comes from friends and the situations their friends helped to put them in. These influences account for many of the reasons to drink and drive. Heavy intoxication often occurs in response to encouragement from friends. For example, friends may promote heavy drinking to feel more comfortable in their own over-consumption. Drink driving is a factor in about 20 percent of all fatal car accidents due to over drinking.

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

Every teenager loves that moment when we are on the open road, sitting right behind the wheel, joining the millions of adults that drive everyday. That feeling of nervousness and excitement is the sense of freedom and the first major step into adulthood. But then that feeling is quickly ended by dad yelling “speed up they’re going to hit you.” That is the beginning of the driving process.

Let me tell you that the majority of automobile accidents in America results from alcohol. The alcohol consumed will be existed in blood and it is known as Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC). In this condition, someone will experience lowered alertness which can cause someone to loss of judgement and reduce their ability to track moving object. Beside lowered alertness, the muscle control will be lessened causing difficulty steering and less ability to maintain lane position and brake appropriately. People in a state of drunkenness are also hard to detect danger. It may reduce their response to emergency driving situations.

Drunk driving is a dangerous problem that needs to be addressed in our society, not only to cut back on the number of deaths caused by alcohol related accidents but also to ensure safety on public roads. Drunk driving is deliberately breaking the law, as well as a sign of indifference for other drivers.

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.

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.

Alcohol affects countless individuals these days. Mostly everyone can think of a loved one or a friend who drinks, and sadly, maybe one who drinks and drives. Society would think strict laws from hefty fines and license suspension would teach the right lesson for drunk drivers. So many drunken drivers go unnoticed and are never pulled over. License suspension is not the answer to solving this issue. A drunk driver who receives more than one DUI has to pay not only a hefty penalty, but likely a lawyer and a taxi since they no longer have their license to get around. Anger, depression and lack of money are only going to make this person drink more, especially if there is an addiction. This harsh treatment is not the proper fix to this ongoing issue. Suspending a driver’s license for life after receiving a DUI charge generates countless negative effects and demonstrates more harm than good.

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.

Driving under the influence of alcohol not only presents a danger to the driver, but also to every other motorist or pedestrian near the roadway. Being intoxicated impairs ones judgment, vision and reaction time, all of which is critical when operating any motor vehicle. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for Americans aged 6–27 and alcohol is a big factor to those numbers (jstor).

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

Each year, 13,000 people are killed by drunk drivers with a blood alcohol level above .08. Advocates of a new standard for in-car breathalyzers say that most, if not all, of those accidents could have been avoided if the drunk driver hadn't been able to turn his or her car on. If Congress and Mothers Against Drunk Driving get their way, could your next new car could come with a breathalyzer pre-installed?

The solution to this problem seems far away and unreachable with our current society that remains drunk with their love of alcohol and claims they are lucid enough to operate a motor vehicle with some kind of skill. Ending drinking and driving are nearly impossible but we can stave off the effects by lessening those who do it. Creating a society of those who do not drink and drive would lead to an increase of wealth and governmental prosperity to a certain extent. Drunk driving negatively effects everyone no matter the circumstances and should not be

Vision is blurred, legs wobbly, and completely off balance. It's known that drinking and driving is illegal, but there is no other way to get home soon enough. What’s the harm, right? That was the last thing thought before getting in an accident and being killed. Everyone knows that drinking and driving is illegal but most people never take that thought into mind before getting behind the wheel.