Standing against teens drinking and driving.

or daughter has passed away in an accident that was caused by driving under the

influence of alcohol.  The pain those teens leave behind for their parents and the victims’

families is not worth a drink and a laugh for a day that had a deadly end.

What is alcohol, and what does it do? The answer to this question alone should stop

teenagers from being irresponsible, and to force them to think before they drink and

drive.   One of the electronic source I come across defined alcohol saying:                         

 

“Alcohol is a depressant, it impairs the ability to drive, and it slows down the

reaction time, it also causes the person to take some risky decision that wouldn’t

be made normally”.  From the same source the writer elucidated that:

“When the intake of alcohol is large; it dulls the area of the brain that controls

inhibition, judgments and self control”.  

With all these facts, how can a 16 or 17 year old make the right decision?  The answer is

that the parent should make the decision before their child leaves the house.   If the

teenage is going to party he or she shouldn’t have the car.   In fact, the parent should pick

the teenager up after their parties.  That itself should help prevent the pain and the

tragedy that may be faced later. An electronic statistics illustrated that :

“1800 people are being killed every year in alcohol related crashes that means one

person dead every 30 minutes and one person injured every minute”.

Some other electronic source showed some statistics about the deaths of teenager

calming that:

“More than 40% of teenage deaths were caused by motor vehicles accidents, 39.9

were the results of alcohol intakes. In Ontario over 31,000 people were charged

with impaired driving offenses in the year 1991.  Over 41000 driver’s licenses are

under suspension as a result of impaired driving convections”.

 These statistics are proof of the new laws that protect our society from the accidents

 being caused by impaired driving.  These laws are the first steps to decreasing the

numbers of deaths that are being caused by drinking and driving; in fact it has decreased

the numbers of deaths that some of the statistics showed.  To proof that last point an  

electronic source stated that

“From 1982 to 2001 there were 900 fewer teen drinking fatalities”.

Drinking and driving is very dangerous.  Many people have had their lives

destroyed and ruined because of drunk drivers.   This is why a behavior such as drinking

and driving is not acceptable in today’s society. New laws might of decrease the numbers

of deaths and accidents but has it changed the way teenagers think? Did it make them

realize it might happen to them too one day? This is the question; the answer is still

unknown.

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