Basic Causes of Impaired Driving Advanced Age‚ Alcohol‚ Drugs‚ Emotions‚ Fatigue‚ Inexperience Why is impaired driving an issue and why should you care? You are only as safe as the other drivers on the road. If there was an impaired driver on the road that was distracted and‚ for example‚ ran a red light‚ and you were the car who was just following the rules and going through a green light‚ and they hit you‚ you are now hurt and have to deal with this issue. Impaired driving does not just affect
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Increasing Safety by Increasing Age Limits of Drivers Many Albertans and fellow Canadians may agree that driving is an act of responsibility and maturity. Giving out licenses to teenagers‚ who tend to make risky and thoughtless decisions‚ is something the country should considered prohibiting. Due to such careless actions‚ crash rates are much higher for younger drivers than older‚ more experienced ones. The increase in fatality for teen drivers may be highly influenced by the lack of wearing seat
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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 early 1980’s provincial anti-drinking and driving groups started to appear in Canada. The people who started these groups were victims and survivors who wanted to inform and educate about the tragedies that were caused by drinking and driving. The people who started these groups include Sally Gribble (PRIDE in B.C.)‚ Gladys Armstrong and Pat Baril (PAID in Alberta)‚ Margaret Taylor (CAID in Manitoba)‚ and PRIDE (People to Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) which is the organization in Ontario
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Evonna Sawall Professor Kaefer English 1A April 8‚ 2014 Driving Under the Influence Should Have Tougher Penalties Although the punishments for driving under the influence are not pleasant‚ they are not effective enough. Laws for driving under the influence need to be tougher in The United States of America in order to decrease the amount of fatal accidents and repeat offenders. The best ways to combat these offenses are to increase fines‚ make the prison sentences more severe‚ and enforce alcohol
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interlocks are issued in only fourteen of those states. Interlocks are mandatory when one is convicted of driving with a BAC of 0.08 g/dL or more. In the existence of ignition interlocks‚ the effort to keep drunk drivers off the road has only been a positive improvement. Some researchers believe the mandatory requirement of fourteen states should be much higher‚ if not forty-eight. Drunk driving fatalities has been a problem ever since automobiles were first invented‚ but ignition interlocks have been
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DRUNK DRIVING Drinking and drinving is a very serious issue in the "driving world" Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens.In 2010‚ 1 to every seven teens ages 16 to 19 died every day from motor vehicle injuries. Per mile driven‚ teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are three times more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash. All of this preventable! In 2010 about 2‚700 teens in the United States aged 16–19 were killed and almost 282‚000 were treated and
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M.A.D.D.‚ or Mothers Against Drunk Drivers‚ is a thirty-five year old interest group whose goal is to end drunk driving. They discourage the driving under the influence of any drug‚ most notably marijuana. They have successfully begun to reduce deaths by supporting Politians and legislature that are anti‚ driving under the influence. While they have a humble beginning they have grown to become both wealthy and powerful‚ with the ability to also pressure Politians into supporting their views. As many
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paper. Alcohol Impaired driving otherwise known as driving under the influence is a hot button topic that most Americans have heard about. Unemployment is a never-ending merry-go-round of stress that the average American dreads. Many people watch the fluctuation of both of these numbers on the news year round‚ but December is a month when both get special attention. Since 2006‚ unemployment rates have been on the rise (Labor - Annual) while alcohol impaired driving fatalities has decreased
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving This essay is about a nationally known lobbying group known as MADD or Mothers Against Driving. This is an organization that was first created by a woman named Candy Lightner whom in 1980 tragically lost her daughter to a repeat offense drunk driver. This organization or lobbying group works very hard and whose goal is to keep drivers off the road who have had too much to drink and to also make sure that drunk driving laws are enforced. The thesis statement is “Mothers
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