The Dangers of Drunk Driving Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the dangers that come with drunk driving. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Imagine driving your car to pick up a friend from a party late one night. The streets are desolate as you pull out of your neighborhood. You are closing in on the first intersection. You do not accelerate because the light is red but you are not hitting your breaks because you can feel that it is about to turn green. Just before you begin breaking
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convicted reckless driving criminals on the road? People convicted of drunk driving should be imprisoned on the first offense to ensure this safety of others. These people are a danger to our society‚ and drunk drivers need to be stopped. Imprisoning the intoxicated driver on the first offense would lower the deaths and injuries of the innocent people who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Drunk Driving is called DWI or DUI‚ "Driving While Intoxicated" or “Driving under the Influence”
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result of drunk driving crashes. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2011.) II. Central Thesis Drunk driving is an epidemic that continues to have severe and life threatening consequences for those involved‚ if we simply take a few steps against drunk driving we can help decrease this epidemic. III. Body A. Need: Drunk driving occurs everyday‚ and many lives are taken because of one person choice. 1. Every 52 minutes on average‚ someone is killed in a drunk driving crash (10
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Be Enforced? Drunk driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Because a person ’s motor skills are impaired while drunk‚ driving under the influence is a major threat to public safety and is a criminal offense in most countries. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that “40% of total traffic deaths in the United States are due to drunk driving” (GET INVOLVED). To determine whether or not someone is driving drunk‚ a person ’s blood
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york city‚ retrieve from; Soft skull press.ISBN-1-887/28-50-1 national. Lowering legal age/ speak up‚ 2012. Position paper lowering drinking age.Retrieve from: http//:www.speak up coalition.org. Madd drunk driving/ underage driving 2014.Retrieve from Http://www.MADD.org NIAAA/underage/drunk driving‚ alcohol abuse‚publications/AA6712013.Retrieve from: http//:www. pubs. niaaa.nih.gov.
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problems of drinking and driving‚ and why it is a concern for all of us. Main Point I: I’d like to start off by talking about the penalties of drinking and driving. Did you know that drunk driving is the nation’s most frequently committed violent crime? A chronic drunk driver is a person who has driven over 1‚000 times before being caught. They do not respond to social pressures‚ law enforcement‚ and the messages that have been combined to reform the drinking and driving behavior of our society.
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If you’re driving and texting it increases the chance of a wreck by 4 times imagine if you’re drunk and driving while texting the chance of you wrecking is a lot greater. Kids who start drinking young are 7times more likely to be in an alcohol-related crash. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death
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Nowadays‚ more and more people are driving without paying enough attention to what they are doing. Each day an estimated 135‚000‚000 cars are on the roads in the U.S. Driving should not be taken carelessly. Incredibly‚ statistics show that car accidents that involve injury occur every 14 seconds‚ and every 12 minutes a car accident will be fatal. Society knows the risks about driving without paying attention but they still practice bad habits while driving. Driving demands a high level of responsibility
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Drunk driving is when you operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level over the legal state limit. Even though with all the warnings‚ higher penalties‚ educational programs‚ and awareness‚ people still drive while under the influence. While the numbers of drunk driving have gone down in the past years‚ anyone can still be at risk rather they are driving or just the passenger. You should not drink and drive because of these three reasons: more likely to have a crash‚ poor decision making‚ and
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2013 Every 53 Minutes a Drunk Driver Kills Someone Drunk drivers should be imprisoned on the first offense because people get killed/injured daily. Drinking and driving is against the law in the state of Hawaii. It is horrible to see a family lose a loved one in an alcohol related automobile accident. If you refuse to take the chemical test on the first offense the police will take your license away for one year. If the police catches you drinking and driving again the years of your license
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