occasionally checking your text messages could result in lifelong injury or even death. Although‚ how serious is this in the modern day world? With hands free calling and other technological advances‚ is distracted driving not as big of an issue as it was 10 or maybe even 20 years ago? Distracted driving happens when a person is operating a vehicle and partakes in a different activity that divides his/her attention. This usually happens when someone is using an electronic related device. According to the National
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use their cell phones while driving to work‚ the grocery store‚ even their children to school (NHTSA). Due to the evolve in technology cell phones have created an eye magnet on the roads for drivers‚ causing dangerous after effects to simply making a phone call. 3‚450 lives were claimed in 2016 due to dangerous driving‚ and the number continues to increase (NHTSA). Unfortunately‚ those who die from dangerous driving are more likely to be a victim‚ over the immature driving styles of another. Ultimately
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percent of auto collisions involved cell phones. Can you guess how high that number is now? People now think that they can do multiple things at once while driving‚ and that’s not the case. It’s dangerous‚ but they don’t care. I do not think that out state does enough to prevent distracted driving. There are a few ways to avoid distracted driving and how to stop it. Cops can pull someone over if they see them on the phone‚ the government can start giving out tickets‚ put up cameras and satellites that
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Lowering the Minimum Legal Drinking Alcohol consumption is the third leading actual cause of death in the United States‚ a major contributing factor to unintentional injuries‚ the leading cause of death for young people‚ and it accounts for an estimated 75‚000 or more total deaths in the United States annually. There have been a lot of discussions about whether to keep the minimum legal drinking age at 21 or to lower the minimum legal drinking age to 18. The minimum legal drinking age in the United States
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Why do so many college students binge drink? In all 50 states of America‚ the legal drinking age is 21‚ yet so many underage college students suffer from health problems due to extreme amounts of alcohol consumption. Drinking in college has become a new ritual‚ so much so that the days of the week all have been transformed into a reason to drink. Formally known as Monday-Sunday have all been rebirthed into‚ “Messed Up Monday”‚ “Tipsy Tuesday”‚ “Wasted Wednesday”‚ “Thirsty Thursday”‚ “F***ed Up Friday”
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These statistics could go down greatly if everyone practiced a safe way of driving otherwise known as defensive driving. Defensive driving is “The action or practice of driving a motor vehicle in a manner which prioritizes safety through the use of particular tactics intended to anticipate danger and avoid collisions.” Defensive driving aids in keeping citizens safe and prevents many deaths and crashes. Defensive driving benefits everyone and if everyone practiced these safe techniques‚ the roads
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In 1897 the first person was arrested for drunk driving‚ it was a 25 year old London taxi driver named George Smith‚ he slammed his taxi into a building.He later pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings. All state states have some type of ignition interlock law. In which judges require all or some convicted drunk drivers to install interlocks in their cars to analyze their breath and disable the engine if alcohol is detected. 20 states have made ignition interlocks mandatory or highly incentive
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Distracted driving is a recent epidemic that is “killing 5474 (16%) people and injured 448‚000 (20%)” (Overton). Drivers are multitasking constantly when they are on the road. It is not just the different tasks they need to perform while driving‚ such as: looking into the rear mirrors‚ stepping on the gas and brake pedals‚ or calculating the stopping distance between their car and another obstacle. They are distracted by other tasks that involves electronics: looking at the gps‚ texting a friend
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Drinking Imagine having a few quite drink’s with your friends‚ But one of your friends drink’s to much and starts to cause trouble‚ swearing all over the place‚ yelling at the neighbours or even picking a fight with you. What would you do?‚ leave them be to cause more trouble? or take them home?. Alcohol is one of New Zealand’s most used drug that causes the problems. New Zealanders enjoy alcohol in moderation but alcohol brings negative health and social consequences associated with it. Some
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concerning the legal drinking age remaining at twenty-one or being lowered to eighteen. John J. Miller‚ backed up with about one-hundred college presidents and chancellors‚ strongly believes that the legal drinking age of twenty one has failed and is not working. However‚ there is research and statistical data that suggests lowering the drinking age would cause several car related accidents‚ potentially increase a teen’s vulnerability of alcoholism‚ and increase binge drinking. John McCardell‚ a
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