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Advertisements posted on the website facesofdrunkdriving.com share multiple stories of people who were unexpectedly struck by drunk drivers. There was one story in particular that stood out to me more than the others and that was Jacqueline Saburido’s. This advertisement makes a powerful statement about how drunk driving can not only kill someone, but can also scar someone for life. The goal of the organization that posted this advertisement is to never drink and drive. It is not worth risking your life, someone else’s life, or putting anyone at risk of lifelong hardships and injuries. They present

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.

After reading “Driving While Stupid,” by Dave Barry, he tells us about some of his experience with seeing bad drivers. Barry uses many old experiences while being in Miami, China, Boston, and Argentina. I agree with this statement because in almost every city I been in the driving was terrible. Everyone, in some way or another, has witnessed people drive very stupid and reckless. Barry indicated that some drivers use insane driving techniques. These include driving very fast, failure of the utilization of headlights at night, and having distractions for the view of the drivers. He says that the drivers do not have a sequence for navigation since some are involved in phone calls, eating, reading, changing CDs, crowd surface makeup, etc. This is a common thing for teens and even adults to be distracted behind the wheel. He drove through various cities where the traffic laws are constantly being violated. For example, has only one traffic law, which is “No driver may ever be behind any other driver.” In his opinion, Miami drivers are the worst drivers that he has ever witness because of the guy who was driving on 1-95. He was watching videos on his phone and was clearly not paying attention to the road or any other drivers. This does not only affect him but also the other people around him. He was not be cautious of the road and putting his and others lives in danger.

2.Thesis: This is very important because people die every day from this issue, there is a logical prevention, and just one person can make a huge difference. I want to talk to you about how big of a problem this actually is and how we can fix it. I am also going to tell you a story about a young lady whose life was affected dramatically by a drunk driver.

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.

There are several distractions for drivers today, cell phones, passengers, even simple things like the radio. But did you know that these distractions cause approximately 10% of crashes, being potentially fatal, for drivers today. Wether these drivers are teenagers or adults distracted driving is a problem on Utah’s roads. For teenagers most fatal crashes are caused by driving off the road. For adults speeding is the leading cause of fatal crashes. Personally I find it interesting when looking at the Top five leading causes of death on Utah roads, the third leading cause is unrestrained occupants, while the fifth is distracted and drunk driving. I would have thought that drunk driving would cause more deaths than Speeding, failure to keep in

With Toronto being the largest city in Canada and the fourth largest city in North America it is crucial that measures are taken to keep the 2.8 million people who populate the city safe. Many lives have been effected by the rising road safety problem including cancer survivor 5 year old Camila Torcato. Toronto Police reported that she was killed when an unoccupied vehicle rolled and pinned her and her father against another car after he was picking her up from school in North York (TorontoStar). When a life is taken the effects aren’t only presented in the family of the victim but in the whole community and anyone who has knowledge of the story. No loss of life should be acceptable especially if all measures haven’t been exhausted enough to promote proper change. The Toronto Road Safety Crisis affects everyone as the citizens all rely on the roads and transportation infrastructure to get safely to their destinations. To set up the landscape of Toronto there are 3 million people who move around Toronto everyday, 1.6 million people who work in Toronto, 5,600km of road, 130km of

“Drunk driving is a significant problem in the United States, costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars each year”(Preventing). Drunk driving is not just a huge problem in the United states, the whole world suffers from it. Some people do not see the real cost of drunk driving. When the driver is drunk, families have experienced losing a loved one, whether he or she was part of the problem or not. The driver that consumes a significant amount of alcohol cannot control him or herself, weaving in between lanes or running down innocent people on sidewalks or simply getting into a car accident. The world overlooks the effects of drunk driving, but it is a common problem that kills thousands every year.

Understanding that vast risks that operating vehicles pose to our customers and the citizens of the Valley,

Studies have shown that motor vehicle and related crashes are the primary cause of death among Americans, especially those aged 1-34 years old. Contributing to the death toll are alcohol, speed, and other various driver behaviors as well as the kinds of vehicles people drive, and the roads on which they travel. In this context, traffic safety is a major public health issue for all motorized regions of the world [1]. More influentially, crashes involving motorcycles are substantially more severe in terms of injury than those that do not. Statistics show that motorcycles comprise of only 3% of registered vehicle in the US, while only accounting for less than 1% of all vehicle miles traveled [2]. Although the motorcycle presence is miniscule on

On the night of October 25, 2014 an incident happened that forever changed my perspective on driving. After only obtaining my driver’s license for three days, I had become too confident due to the fact that I was involved in an accident as a result of my human error. “Crashes and near crashes are more common in the first six months of independent driving than in the following year, a new study that observed teenage drivers using cameras and other sensors has found.” (Vol.46, No. 11.)

Driving can be the best of times or in some cases the worst of times. These incidents don’t only have an impact on our life but, also the individuals around us. When driving you feel in the moment and tend to have nothing constantly on your mind. These instances, when we aren’t cognizant of what is around us, we may go from laughing and singing to being on the side of a road reporting an accident. Being a young person who had just got their driver's license all I thought about was not the destination but, the adventure that would take me there. We believe that we are invincible and within these moments nothing has the power to reach us.

Las Vegas, Nevada is known by its nickname “sin city” and is most commonly associated with its large casinos and “I ran away and got married” wedding chapels. However, there’s a lot more to this famous city that most people aren’t familiar with. From extravagant stage productions to hands-on educational attractions, there really is something new around every corner.

In today’s society, motor vehicle accidents can cause serious economic stress on the average U.S. citizen. In America today, the average legal driving age can start out at the age of eighteen. Unless those new drivers have had plenty of time behind the wheel, they are subject to a higher risk of a motor vehicle accident that could result in economic stress. Economic stress can come in all varieties. It can range from an influx in vehicle insurance premiums and medical bills to the physiological stress of losing a vehicle in a multi-vehicle homestead; as well as the stress that can come from ones career or workplace. With the economic state of America, an influx in insurance premiums and payments can seriously hit the pocket. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading causes of traumatic injuries worldwide (Diedericks 2). Motor vehicle accidents can cause traumatic stress, severe injury, and can even cause serious debt. If the average U.S. citizen were to better understand what a motor vehicle accident is and understand the leading causes of those motor vehicle, it would help in mitigating the volume of accidents and economic stress.

A bad driver is not the reckless maniac running red lights and knocking over stop signs in order to beat the rush hour traffic. A bad driver is not the teenager in the driver’s seat for the first time, racing through a parking lot at ten miles per hour. A bad driver is neither the gray-haired man driving under the speed limit on a one lane road, nor the woman fixing her lipstick in the rearview mirror, instead of watching the light turn green. This essay does not refer to those without adequate driving skills, but rather, to those who are capable of driving well but choose not to. In this essay, bad driving is defined as a mere disregard for the road regulations that do not directly benefit the driver, otherwise known as efficient driving.