“Please blow into this machine. Thank you.” If you are a driver, this sentence is familiar to you. Many police examine drunk driving at the crossroads every day. Meanwhile, numbers of advertisements and messages on TVs and radios persuade us not to drive after drinking. Driving without drinking has become a common understanding. But why do we have to accept this? And what would we do if somebody is drunk driving? Today, I hope to convince you that drunk driving is terrible and that stricter penalties are necessary.
We can begin by noting that drunk driving causes problems for individuals and for society.
Many people think they are good drivers. They believe that alcohol can’t influence them. Unfortunately, they are wrong. The experimental data show that alcohol can hocus people’s brains. It makes our time of reacting become 3 times long. Even if the speed of car is slow, danger is around us. About two thousand drivers died every year because of drunk driving.
Drunk driving is a problem for society more than for individuals. Cars will not be controlled when drivers are drunk driving. They will go in the wrong direction and hurt other persons. There are about twenty thousand people who died because of cars out of control every year. Many families are broken due to drunk driving.
You can now see the magnitude of the problem with drunk driving. Fortunately, it’s a problem that can be easily solved.
Stricter penalties are effective solutions. Being fined a lot of money and detained several days are common but indispensable. Even if the drunker didn’t hurt anybody, he should pay these penalties. The significance of driving without drinking can press in people’s heart by using stricter penalties.
Second, if somebody hurts others because of drunk driving, he should be disqualified. This kind of people must compensate for the economic loss of the victims. Qualification of driving must be cancelled either. And the detention is not being avoided. These