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    life and the life of others What is the best solution to prevent deaths from happening from drunk driving? There are many solutions to the problem but some people choose to make the bad decision instead. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that, “Every day in America, another 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes” (NHTSA). One of my mom’s best friends was killed by a drunk driver. She was out with friends eating dinner when she got a phone call from her husband saying

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    Drunk Driving with Alcohol Drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol today is a serious matter in the United States. While being under the influence of alcohol and drugs it is a fact that it is a major cause of injury and death of young adults in our world. Of all the major problems causing drinking and driving, one of the major problems is alcohol

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    What Is the Best Way to Prevent DUI and Deaths Due to Drunk Driving? Driving Under the Influence (DUI) causes peoples' loss of life or serious bodily injuries to everyone who crosses illegal barriers to drinking and driving. It causes many tragic injuries to a number of people on U.S. roadways. Even innocent children get hurt or killed if someone misjudges his or her ability to operate their vehicle due to drinking alcohol. Drinking while driving is one of the most unfortunate realities that exist

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    Persuasive Essay Drunk driving is driving a vehicle with excess amount of alcohol in your blood. Every 51 minutes in America, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash. That equates to 27 people everyday. Driving under the influence of alcohol can be very threatening for others as well as the person who is driving the car. Drunk driving is really harmful to other people as well as the person who is driving. Driving intoxicated could cause major collision which could get a person killed. According

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    We need to take action on drunk drivers Just this past summer on the day of July 15, 2017 a fatal accident involving a biker and a drunk driver. Cynthia Arsnow was riding her bike along highway 14 and was struck by a drunk driver, she was killed almost instantly. The State Journal claims “Deputies who arrived at the scene found Arsnow on the shoulder of Highway 14, and her bicycle broken in half”.The driver of the vehicle that killed Arsnow was Rollen Fries. Rollen was charged for homicide and

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    Drunk driving is a serious offense that not only effects the drunk driver, but also the people around the drunk driver. Drunk driving causes serious accidents that often end with someone being seriously injured, or killed. There are many ways to prevent drunk driving from license suspension to incarceration. Another way to prevent drunk driving is to rehabilitate the drunk driver by initiating the ignition interlock device. This device is installed in a vehicle of a driving while intoxicated (DWI)

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    Driving under the influence (DUI) is defined as driving or operating a motor vehicle while having higher blood alcohol content than the legal limit causing the intoxicated person to be a danger to him/her and others. In the state of North Carolina, any person who has anything higher than .08 percent blood alcohol content is considered unfit or unable to operate a motor vehicle and is prohibited from driving. However, a drastic amount of people still choose to drive while intoxicated causing driving

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    according to CBS news, that number is on the rise. Drunk driving is the criminal act of driving while being impaired, alcoholically. When alcohol is consumed it is absorbed into the bloodstream. In most situations alcohol slows down the brain's ability to control the body, reflexes are also affected by this. If a driver is impaired his ability to track moving objects are affected along with the ability to control the vehicle. Drunk driving is a controversial topic because, some people think

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    Though drunk driving fatalities numbers are on the decrease as the years go by .Significant numbers of fatalities are still present .The highest rate is among teen drivers and we need to discuss solutions to this serious existing situation. These fatalities are Lowering on a national level, but the numbers are staggering. I would just say that fatalities are actually down about 25 percent over the past decade, so there has been major improvements in the United States in terms of reducing drunk-driving

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    riding home from work when he was hit by a drunk driver. He didn’t wake up til hours later, with several broken ribs and a broken collar bone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, “ Every day, 28 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol impaired driver”. Drunk driving is the act or crime of driving a vehicle while under the affect of drugs, typically alcohol. The legal limit for driving while impaired is a blood alcohol concentration

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