Impaired driving is the when someone operates a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs to the point that mental and motor skills are impaired. It is against the law in Canada‚ and breaks many laws in the Criminal Code of Canada‚ and can also result suspension of driver’s licenses. Driving while impaired is a very irresponsible act because it is very well know of how dangerous it causing 1‚250 and 1‚500 deaths per year and 64‚000 injuries with lots of documented history on it and
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The Problems Of Drinking And Driving Harman Singh Gahir Roll Number August 09 2010 On the night of May 14‚ 1988‚ Larry Mahoney was drunk‚ so drunk that his blood-alcohol concentration—the percentage of alcohol in his blood—was more than twice Kentucky’s legal limit at the time of .10 percent. Regardless‚ Mahoney got behind the wheel of his pickup truck and proceeded to drive northbound in the southbound lane of Interstate 71 near Carrollton‚ Kentucky‚ crashing head-on into a church bus returning
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Draft 2/20/13 Dangers of Texting and Drunk Driving Have you ever sent a text while driving? Texting while driving has been raising issues in today’s society as 46 percent of teens‚ and more than one in five drivers have admitted to texting while driving (source). This hazardous habit has lead to many studies to expose the dangers of texting while driving‚ and how it compares to drunk driving to all drivers. Texting while driving and drunk driving cause an increase in automobile accidents and
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drunk driving still isn’t taken as serious as it needs to be; but with an annual cost of 50 billion dollars‚ alcohol related crashes are clearly still a problem. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers‚ especially if impaired‚ (Preventing). Impairment is defined as the amount of alcohol in the blood‚ (Drunk). The way the government/law enforcement can tell if someone is impaired is their BAC level. The government has also helped decrease the statistics of drunk driving by
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Phone While Driving Chaveli Lopez Keiser University Abstract Driving is one of the skills that require full attention to control the vehicle and respond to the events happening on the road. Use a cell phone while driving involves visual‚ manual and mental distractions (NHTSA‚ 2005). Several studies have found that young people are more likely to use cell phone than older people. Young drivers are almost five times more likely than older drivers to report phone use while driving (McEvoy
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drive has to learn in whatever weather is occurring. This means driving in spring‚ summer‚ autumn‚ or winter. The task of learning to drive is stressful all on its’ own‚ but adding changing weather makes it all the more difficult. The most major concern is driving in the winter as compared to driving in the summer. Driving during these two seasons is like night and day for many reasons. Many individuals have the misconception that driving during the summer season has almost no risk associated with it
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age‚ but it is still unclear if they are able to handle it. If the legal driving age is lowered‚ are we endangering the lives of teen drivers‚ as well as the passengers with them? I believe most people want to drive as soon as they can. However‚ recently the government has been trying to pass laws that may change the current driving age of 16. There are positive and negative aspects to changing the laws that allow the driving age to stay at 16.There have been new bills being proposed that mite be
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of Today’s Drivers Have Dangerous Habits The majority of traffic accidents are caused by dangerous driving habits acquired and practiced by drivers. A recently new dangerous habit is the use of a cell phone while driving. The most dangerous driving habit is driving after consuming alcohol. Another habit that many people tend to have but don’t view as dangerous is listening to music while driving. It’s imperative that drivers understand these issues need to be taken seriously. The statistics continue
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Drunk Driving happens when the driver of a vehicle is intoxicated from alcoholic beverages. This very dangerous and has devastating effects. Many people die each year from a drunk driving accident. In the lesson on drunk driving it states‚" Almost half of the crashes in which people are killed nationally involve drinking. There are more than 16‚000 of those crashes each year." in the same essay it states‚" The average person is likely to be legally intoxicated after consuming three mixed drinks‚
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Driving is a very demanding activity that requires a serious responsibility‚ attitudes with physical and mental abilities for safety. Alcohol and drugs can interfere with even the most skilled and experiened drivers’ safely. In order to drive safely‚ you must be alert‚ aware of your environment and able to make decisions. Your hands‚ feet and eyes are required to control the vehicle‚ and consumption or use of alcohol or drugs alter the function of your brain‚ which controls all of these. This can
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