The Truth Behind Drinking And Driving

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The Truth behind Drinking and Driving

Imagine being in a bar with a few of your good friends. Everyone is drinking and having a good time. You are going to leave and go home, but your friends won't let you because they know the dangers of driving after having a few drinks. Instead they call a cab to give you a ride home. You would be extremely lucky to have such smart friends. Drunk driving is a very serious problem in our society today, but it is becoming socially unacceptable causing the numbers of alcohol related traffic fatalities to decline considerably.

Drunk driving can be very deadly. Yet many people drive while under the influence everyday. Drivers who are drunk are blamed for the loss of as many as twenty-five thousand lives in highway crashes each year and hundreds of thousands of severe injuries.

It is thought that drunk drivers have a long history of doing this and many prior arrests. In addition, most of those killed are just innocent victims whose behavior did not contribute to their deaths. These last two statements are both false. On average a drunk driver that kills has never been involved in an alcohol related accident before and has no

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prior convictions for drunk driving. The part about the people killed are just innocent bystanders is unexaggerated also. Most of the drunk drivers’ victims are the drivers
themselves. They are often passengers, and the drunken pedestrians and cyclists. Despite this, drunk driving is still very dangerous. It is the leading cause of unintentional injury deaths in America today. In fact, it is said that about forty percent of the population will be involved in an alcohol related crash during their life. Drunk driving is especially dangerous to young people, who seem to be more involved than others. Drunk driving is the number one cause of death among young people, accounting for twenty percent of all deaths from ages fifteen to twenty. Drunk driving is ...