Essay About Drunk Driving

Drunk driving is one of the most dangerous activities you can partake in because it can not only deprive you of life and happiness, it can also affect others in huge ways. According to the information given in the lesson, alcohol can start affecting you in a major way after as few as twenty minutes. These effects include slower reaction times and impaired judgement which can be extremely dangerous because you are not aware of the risks you are taking and how your actions affect others. You can be affected by as little as one drink so if you will be driving at all, don’t drink.

The video “Lives Affected” is full of interviews of people that have been affected by drunk driving. The first story is about a girl and her boyfriend who were driving and had a drunk driver crash into them head on. The girl survived with some injuries, but the guy did not. This shows very clearly the damages drunk driving can cause. If you drink and drive, not only will you
Some of the boys in the jeep survived but Christopher burned to death before he could be saved. Christopher’s family are extremely sorrowful about this accident. It was very obvious to the drunk driver that there was an object in his path, but he was so impaired that he did not stop. If alcohol causes you to run into objects that are not even moving, it is very dangerous indeed.

Watching these videos and hearing these stories has reaffirmed my determination to never drink and drive. If you do drink and drive, you run a high risk of harming yourself and others, and it is simply not worth it just to drink. I will never drink and drive, but I will be aware of the possibility that others might and I will watch out for them on the road. Hopefully the drunk driving problem can be reduced so we do not have such a large problem