On May 3‚ 1980 Candy Lightner lost her 13 year old daughter‚ Cari Lightner‚ when a drunk driver stuck Cari and killed her tragically. Clarence Bush was the man behind the wheel and Candy Lightner had come to learn that he had a grocery list of arrests for intoxication. Unfortunately‚ the police officer working on the Cari Lightner case informed Candy that drunk drivers were not prosecuted harshly and Clarenece Busch would unlikely be thrown in jail for his heinous crime (he was eventually founded
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Argumentative Essay Imagine that you are driving home from a liquor store‚ you look at the bottle you bought‚ and it says you’re one of the 28. You take a drink of it and then immediately swerve and hit a car. It sound like the plot to a movie right? But sadly no‚ the reality is that every 51 minutes‚ a person dies due to drunk driving. That’s about 28 people who die everyday because of this issue. And since drunk driving is a growing issue‚ that number is just going to go up. On their own‚ alchohol
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Teen Driving Issues Project Drunk Driving Part 1 identifying the issue Why Is Drunk Driving A Problem‚ Especially for teen drivers? This is a major problem for teens because drunken teenagers are more likely to get in a car crash then an adult drunk driver and drunk driving should not even be done. Many teens are also pressured into drunk driving which again has a high chance in getting into a crash. Statistics from research regarding teen crash rates About 70% of all teens drink
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begun to recognize the dangers associated with drunk driving (Sutton 463). According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration‚ this year 519‚000 people‚ or one person per minute‚ will be injured in alcohol-related accidents. 10‚839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes this year – that is one death every 50 minutes. The heartbreaking part is‚ every injury and lost life due to driving after drinking can be prevented. Drinking while driving “accidents” are not merely “accidents.” Getting
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Teen Driving Project Topic: Drunk Driving Why is this a problem‚ especially for teens? Drunk driving is a problem especially for teens‚ because of peer pressure and some people feel that it is a funny scenario when they let a drunk driver take control of a vehicle‚ but they don’t realize the danger they are getting into. Many teenagers drink because they think it makes them cooler and not all are aware of the affects of drunk driving. Some teenagers also think they have the ability of being invincible
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In the past‚ she had been rear-ended by a drunk driver‚ causing severe damage to Serena. Also‚ Travis was just 4 years old when he got run over right in front of his own home (Griffins). His injuries‚ especially the brain damage‚ still affect him to this day. Busch‚ the driver who hit Cari‚ was a repeated offender of driving under the influence‚ and Candy was informed that he would highly unlikely receive a large punishment (Peters)
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because somebody made the choice to drive drunk‚ both families will be imprisioned by the loss for the rest of their lives. ople need to realize drunk driving is a serious offence. A life is taken about every 45 minutes due to drunk driving. We have to face the unfortunate truth that the penelties for a first time offence isnt going to do much. A license can be suspended up to a year and most the time is only penelized for 6 months‚ if that. If you drive drunk and kill someone‚ you might be charged
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sheriff’s department or the state patrol. Drivers who do get pulled over for drunk driving will be arrested and need to hire an attorney. Lawyers represent men and women in the courtroom‚ and negotiate lighter sentences with judge and district attorney’s office‚ there are even times when the case gets dismissed altogether even those the individual were clearly impaired behind the wheel breaking the law. My argument for my paper is whether or not there should be stricter DUI laws in the state of
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car hit her with so much force‚ that it knocked her out of her shoes and sent her 125 feet away (“Candy Lightner”). Lightner later found out that Cari was hit by a drunk driver who not once stopped after hitting Cari and was most likely to receive little punishment. The driver was Clarence William Busch. He had four previous drunk driving convictions‚ only spent forty-eight hours in jail for the death of Cari‚ and had another hit-and-run incident just two days before Cari’s hit (“Candy Lightner Facts”)
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Have you ever wondered why police can stop you at a DUI roadblock‚ or a “Sobriety Checkpoint”? B. (Thesis) Roadblocks used to identify drunk drivers are unconstitutional and ineffective and should be removed. C. (Significance to Audience/Credibility) According to a study conducted by the National Hard Core Drunk Driving Project in 2002‚ thirty nine states‚ including Pennsylvania‚ permit the use of random sobriety roadblocks. D. (Preview of Main Points)
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