The Dangers of Driving Under the Influence Did you know that more than 10‚839 people will die this year with one dying every 30 minutes?(Main) Just thinking about one person dying every 50 minutes is very eye opening! Now think about if you were that person under the influence‚ got in someones car‚ started driving and next thing she knows she see bright car lights and her life is changed. One should take more caution when thinking about drinking. Drinking is getting way out of hand for teens and
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Activities to Promote Safe Driving Traffic accidents kill young drivers and their passengers more than any other age group‚ partly because kids don’t have the experience that older drivers have and also because kids do mindless things when they drive‚ sometimes due to peer pressure or just lack of awareness. Distractions such as cell phones‚ eating‚ grooming‚ talking‚ texting and fiddling with the radio can cause automobile crashes. Wearing seat belts can save lives in accidents. Driver education
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Texting While Driving The number one leading cause of teenage driving deaths and crashes is texting while driving. Texting while driving is teenagers’ number one driving distraction (Cell Phone). Texting while driving has not really been a big concern until recently. Law enforcement have realized that the percentage of texting and driving accident have risen over the past years. Texting while driving has been getting ignored but now it’s time to bring it to the light to save some lives. Texting
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Driving under the influence has affected many people’s lives and families. Today I would like to talk to you about the problems of drinking and driving‚ and why it is a concern for all of us. Driving under the influence is one of the most common and dangerous situations you can put yourself or someone else in. The fact is that drinking and driving is a huge deal and can leave a long trail of broken dreams and hearts. If you drink and drive‚ not only are you putting yourself at risk‚ but your
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someday‚ it’s best to start off young learning” I didn’t know if I was more nervous than driving or driving along. So I took a deep breath in went through with it‚ I was doing well until I was coming around a curve in didn’t realize a mailbox was on side of a curb. Before I knew it “BANG” I ran into the mailbox‚ a fence‚ and a garbage can. The cause of that happening was because I was already nervous about driving; it was new to me by coming around a curb I was just getting use
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Statistics Paper Driving is a very dangerous and often hazardous thing to do. This is especially true for people ages fifteen to nineteen. There are so many crashes each year for teen drivers that it’s a miracle anyone makes it past twenty years old unharmed. In 2009 alone three hundred and fifty teens were treated for a car related accident. Teen car crashes are preventable. Often times teens drink before they drive or while they drive which makes the vehicle
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Speech Assignment: Informative #2 Speech Goal: To inform the audience on hybrid cars. Opening: Hybrid cars are much more environmentally friendly than gas only vehicles. There are several different sorts of transportation that one would have never thought of as being hybrid. There are plenty of advantages of having a hybrid over gas only and electric only cars also. Body: 1. What is a hybrid? * 2 or more sources of power that can directly or indirectly provide power.
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the biggest problems related to irresponsible drinking is driving while intoxicated (DWI). Fatality rates related to DWI’s are astronomical. According to the data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)‚ in 1990 alone‚ 20‚083 people were killed as a result of alcohol related crashes. In 1995‚ fatalities were still estimated at about 17‚274. In 1998‚ DWI related death rates still amounted to 15‚936 (“Drunk Driving‚” n.d.). Although these numbers did decrease slightly each
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The human mind is easily distracted! You can either be the cause of these distractions or other stimuli will be the cause but rest assured peo- ple WILL BE distracted because the human mind is gullible. The human mind responds quickly to these three forms of stimuli •Sex •Humor •FEAR But the greatest of them all is FEAR! BTW – on the positive side we have faith‚ hope‚ love‚ but the greatest of these is LOVE. Fear usually takes the form of what is called “Scarcity Thought” You are
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Texting and Driving vs. Drunk Driving Over the last century‚ technology has helped society move forward‚ making things faster and easier. Having a vehicle has allowed people to reach a destination faster than they would if they had to ride a bike or even walk. Also the ability to now text using a cell phone speeds up the communication process even more. With all the new technological advances you have to many people taking advantage of it; by texting while they are driving to make business or
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