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Drunk Driving And Its Consequences
In 2008, 11,773 people were killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes. These alcohol impaired-driving fatalities accounted for 32 percent of the total motor vehicle traffic fatalities in the United States; and represented an average of one alcohol-impaired-driving fatality every 45 minutes. In the book Looking for Alaska by (author), the female protagonist, Alaska, had died in a car accident as a result of drunk driving. For Alaska alcohol was a way to cope with the pain and the guilt after her mother's death. Another example of drunk driving and its consequences is the death of Junior’s grandmother in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Grandmother Spirit lost her life due to someone else’s fault. Alcohol abuse is

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