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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