Driving is fun‚ but drinking and driving is not! Hundreds of people are killed and thousands are injured every year in an accident with a drunk driver. This issue doesn’t only affect the victim itself‚ but the families‚ loved ones and communities as well. Drunk driving amongst teens is a serious issue‚ and is growing by the minute. Drunk driving is somebody’s choice or somebody’s authorization to get behind the wheel when they are clearly impaired. The scars from a drunk driving accident take an
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MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING Listening Plan When I think about attending a MADD meeting might be like‚ I’m not really sure what to expect. l know the time of the meeting; Wednesday at 5:30pm October 13‚ 2010. I’ll make sure to eat before going. I don ’t want to be hungry and I don ’t like vending machine food. l know me well enough that if I don ’t eat before going to this meeting I won ’t be a good listener. I have been this way since grammar school. I always had to have a good breakfast. The
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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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distracted driving. Senator Klobuchar on the committee and senators Menendez‚ Landrieu‚ and Hagen together introduced the Alert Drivers Act‚ which would say that states pass laws banning texting while driving. Though more and more states are passing texting bans‚ it remains the case that fewer than half the states have banned the practice as of today (U.S. Congress). AAA foundation for Traffic Safety reports that 67 percent of drivers admitted to talking on their cell phone while driving behind the
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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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What’s drunk driving among teens and what happens? Drunk driving is when someone drinks a beverage with alcohol in it and they get behind the wheel to drive a motorized vehicle. A 16 year old driving drunk is the same as a 35 year old driving drunk. The only difference is that the 16 year old is underage and is breaking the law by not being at legal age. Alcohol is illegal to individuals who are under the age of 21. All 50 states have a law against drinking under 21 because individuals younger
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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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Mothers Against Drunk Driving Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)‚ formerly Mothers Against Drunk Drivers‚ is a Texas-based nonprofit organization that fights drunk driving‚ underage drinking and assists the victims of drunk driving and their families. History The organization was founded in 1980 by Candace Lightner‚ whose 13 year old daughter was killed by a hit and run drunk driver in California. The driver was a repeat offender‚ and the sentence handed down outraged Lightner. She formed
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I was a state legislature‚ I would be very passionate about the drunk driving laws within our state. You see I see now real difference in murder‚ lets say aiming a weapon at someone an shooting them and fatally killing them vs. drinking a fifth of whiskey purposely choosing to get behind the wheel of a car and killing an innocent person. Where the difference comes into play in my opinion many people have drove a motor vehicle while drinking and never shot anyone‚ therefore less likely to judge there
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Running Head: The Dangers of Texting and Driving The Dangers of Texting and Driving It was an evening I will never forget. What I saw that night will impact me for the rest of my life. The night started off normally. My girlfriend and I went out to enjoy a nice dinner with my family‚ but the night took an unexpected turn on our way home. We were driving along I17 and decided to exit the freeway to stop and get gas. We noticed a car fly by us at an incredibly fast rate
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