DRUNK DRIVING Drinking and driving is a very serious and dangerous problem. Many people every year are killed or injured because of drunk drivers‚ and almost all of the people who are killed are innocent. The more you drink the more likely you are to have an accident. Driving whilst under the influence of drink is a dangerous situation‚ and the consequences are appalling‚ because you can end up killing someone else‚ losing your own life or even sent to court. Why do people drink while
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Drink driving & The social learning theory Drink driving in the U.K is on the rise‚ with many people breaking the legal limit of drink driving daily. The current legal limit in England and Wales is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood‚ 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath or 107 milligrams per 100 millilitres of urine. (www.telegraph.co.uk) If a driver gives a specimen of any form which gives a reading that is higher than the limit provided above‚ they have in fact broken
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would not be able to get where they needed to be without someone driving them. When teens younger than 18 can’t drive themselves to and from activities‚ those responsibilities fall onto their parents‚ who may not have the freedom or willingness to shuttle their teens from place to place. Driving teaches teens responsibility and because when teens are 18 they are considered adults they have more opportunities to make bad choices and driving teaches them how to handle situations and learn responsibility
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Exemplification Essay Driving for most people is an everyday task that to most people becomes tedious. People are starting to forget that they should be giving their full attention in watching the road and their surroundings. Drivers now in day have picked up some of the most dangerous habits possible just to pass the time while driving. Some of there habits are using there phones‚ eating‚ or applying makeup all while driving. One of the most common dangerous habits drivers have is using their
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There are many different views towards the topic of whether or not ones driver’s license should be permanently revoked for their first alcohol-related offense. My personal viewpoint towards this controversial and ongoing debate in our society is that a person should have more than one chance with regards to these offences. People under the age of twenty one who are involved in alcohol-related offences are not properly educated to the effects this substance has on the mind and body. Also‚ first time
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Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving Mariah Henry COM/170 December 11‚ 2012 Michele Davidson Texting While Driving Vs. Drinking and Driving The nation risks a relentless rise in deadly accidents unless it makes texting while driving as forbidden as drinking and driving. Sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes from the road long enough to drive the length of a football field while driving an average speed of 55 miles per hour; that does not include having a reaction
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Canada In 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
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distractions while driving. When people drive‚ they encounter disturbances varying from electronics to food that cause them to take part of their attention away from the road. These interruptions that society faces affect countless amounts of people in ways some would not even image. Distractions cause crashes which then take not only people’s lives‚ but also hard earned money from those who were not even in the crash. Any distractions while driving‚ including drinking‚ texting‚ or driving with fatigue
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Carolina Gasca Course Project_Final Draft A real-world problem that I have conducted my research on was drinking and driving in teens. Every day‚ almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver (cdc.gov). Each year there are thousands of deaths because teens seem to believe they are invincible even to drinking‚ they get behind the wheel‚ and well you can imagine the consequences to that‚ they don’t know they don’t only put their lives
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