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    Mothers against Drunken Driving (MADD) Student’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: Mothers Against Drunk Driving Candace Lynne Lightner‚ also known as Candy Lightner‚ is well recognized as being the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) (Overbey‚ 2006). Having been born in the year 1946 in Pasadena‚ California‚ Candace graduated from high school and proceeded to enroll in American River College in Sacramento where she also graduated (Lerner‚ 2011). She later married Steve Lightner and

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    INTRODUCTION: This case involved Suspect Alexander Mulato being arrest for driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages. LOCATION DESCRIPTION: This incident occurred at the Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa located at 1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave. INVESTIGATION: On Friday‚ November 27‚ 2015 at 10:49 pm‚ Officer Alvarado #0347 and I responded to 1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave for a male unconscious in the driver’s seat of a running vehicle. Upon our arrival‚ I saw a male Hispanic‚ later identified as

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    Theories Help Explain Drunk Driving Taylor Forté February 5‚ 2014 HDFS 2400 University of Missouri Fall 2013 ID: 333795 and Keycode: 2476 Theories Help Explain Drunk Driving Driving while intoxicated persists to be a major problem amongst teenage drivers. Although there are many precautions taken in order to prevent this type of activity‚ whether by the school‚ media or parents’‚ teens proceed to place themselves into these very high risk situations. These persistent

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    looked at is research conducted about mother against drunk driving. This research helps with answering the question because mothers against drunk driving is an organization that doesn’t not have specific group of people that support this organization and by looking at this research I can figure out a more detailed answer. The research indicates that people who support MADD are mostly young adults and people who have been affected by drunk driving. The research also shows that 49% percent of the population

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    The central concept of my outside source‚ MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)‚ is to teach the audience that they should think about their decision multiple times before taking action because once they make the big jump‚ an obstacle appears in their way and they become trapped. All different scenarios end up traveling towards them‚ not having a clue as to what just happened and how to come out of that problem. Whenever people are making certain choices and they are in doubt about the costs of

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    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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    The day I crashed my car… okay I didn’t actually crash it. But I don’t think that I have ever been so petrified seeing a powder blue prius about to rear-end me. Little me‚ little 4”11’‚ 112 pounds Katie Long was about to start driving. I get lost at the mall‚ the mall. So as you can assume‚ my parents are shaking in their boots. Having an older brother I’ve been through the ‘learning how to drive’ situation. You could say I’m immune to it‚ or so I thought. Here I am‚ going into my sophomore

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    your parents or friends to drive you everywhere‚ Getting your driver’s license is seen as a milestone in every teenager’s life‚ and is something that most everyone looks forward to in their lives. This was a different story for me. The thought of driving absolutely terrified me. The thought of controlling a 2 ton vehicle going at a very fast speed on a busy road among other large heavy vehicles made me sweat. But‚ in order to be granted this passage into freedom‚ learning how to drive a car was something

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    Cause and Affect Essay: Drunk Driving Drinking and driving is a very bad combination. Mixing the two would be very deadly for many people on the streets. Drinking reduces your concentration and your reactions to sudden hazards which can lead to fatal accidents or severe injury. “MADD estimated that there are between 1‚350 and 1‚600 impaired crash fatalities in Canada each year.” This meaning that there are an approximate of 1‚450 lives stolen to drunk driving that can be saved if one person

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    Whether you have been in a car with a drunk driver or you have been the drunk driver. Whether you injured someone because of drink driving. Whether someone lost their life because of your drink driving. Whether you were injured because of a drunk driver‚ or you know someone who lost their life because of a drunk driver‚ I imagine the feeling to be pretty horrific. My grandfather was killed in a car accident that had nothing to do with drink driving. What if you lost someone because of something so

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