Drinking And Driving Essay

When a person drinks alcohol or does illegal drugs, one of the first things impaired is a person’s judgment. Their motor skills are affected, judging distance and judging speeds, their response time. These skills are vital to driving a car. So, common sense is if you drink you will be impaired, if you then try to drive a car, your driving will be impaired. Easy to say but so many people ignore the law and the basic common sense of not drinking and driving.
Interesting that there is sort of a rule of threes: three cans of beer, three glasses of wine or three mixed drinks within one hour and the normal person would generally be considered drunk and it only takes one drink per hour after that to remain drunk. This is to be considered drunk, so
They have this arrogance that they can drive, they aren’t
“that” drunk. That makes for the most dangerous driver. They not only are careless enough to drive after they have been drinking but arrogant to think they are okay, they can handle it, they can drive after they have been drinking.
How is the life of a drunk driver impacted? For a drunk driver, dealing with the effects of their actions for driving while you were drunk may be even more difficult that the victims.
Guilt. They may be feeling tremendous guilt for the loss of friends or family members who died in the crash. Along with the victims, their lives are changed forever. They will be facing legal challenges, possibly going to jail or prison for a very long time and charged with murder, but the worst of all will be their guilt that may take a lifetime to overcome. Drinking and driving is illegal, plain and simple, but regardless of the law and how many drinks per hour you can have, drinking anything and driving is just plain stupid and reckless and in my opinion if you take the chance of drinking and driving it is not a matter of if you will get in an accident, it is a matter of when. Lives will be lost, families will be destroyed, people will never be the