Essays on Drunk Driving
How do behavioural factors contribute to road accidents and what are the causes and effects of it? Speeding Speeding is one of the main things which contributes to road crashes. As vehicles at high speeds are harder to control than slower vehicles, driving at higher speeds raises the possibility of accidents due to the shorter...
Drinking and driving is against the law. No adult can consume above 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. The effects of alcohol to the brain, slows down a person’s reaction time e.g. would take a longer period to respond to a hazard. The extra distance travelled in that time is called the ‘thinking distance’....
Greenfeld, L. A. (1988, February 1). Drunk Driving. Retrieved from https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=3661. Lawrence A. Greenfeld is a Statistician for the Bureau of Justice Statistics who draws data from the FBI and state and local police agencies, as well as information from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to illustrate trends in arrests for drunk driving incidents...
Goal: To persuade my audience that drinking and driving is a dangerous problem that needs to be addressed in our society. Introduction: In 2009, there were ten thousand eight hundred thirty-nine victims in crashes involving a driver with a BAC of .08 or higher which is thirty-two per cent of total traffic accidents for the...
Drunk driving is the crime of driving a vehicle with an excess of alcohol in the blood. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), about one in three people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetimes. In December of 2017, I was hit from behind on a local freeway...
