The Effects of Driving Drunk

By

Casey Swoope

Central Academy of

Technology & Arts

Facts About Driving Under the Influence

• Every day, between 30 and 40 people in the United States die in car accidents due to drunk driving.

• Alcohol-related deaths in 2008 are reported to have comprised as much as 35% of all traffic-related deaths in America.

Facts Cont.

• Drivers with high blood alcohol content or concentration (BAC) are at increased risk of car accidents, highway injuries and vehicular deaths.

• High BAC drivers tend to be male, aged 25-35, and have a history of DWI convictions and drug abuse

Teens and Alcohol

• Young drivers are less likely than adults to drive after drinking alcohol, but their crash risk is substantially higher when they do.

• Young DWI offenders risk losing their academic eligibility.

Effects of Drinking

• Increases the risk of a number of diseases: fatty degeneration of the liver, and many more.

• 40% of all incidents involving aggression occur while under the influence of alcohol

Legal Repercussions• Driver’s license may be

suspended or revoked for anywhere from a week to years.

• Vehicle sanctions may require the offender’s car to include a specially marked license plate or even an interlock device that prevents the car from starting unless the driver passes a breath-scan test.

My Family and Alcohol

• My Uncle killed a new mother while intoxicated when he was 18.

• He refused to get his license for 10 years after the accident.

Alcoholism in my Family

• My Aunt was in over six car crashes due to driving while under the influence.

• Because of these incidents, she was left without insurance, a license a home and had her children taken from her. Drinking eventually took her life.

• My Grandmother died at age 63 from a heart attack due to years of alcohol and drug abuse.

How Alcohol Has Effected Me

• My aunt died at the age of 46 from psoriasis of the liver.

• Her medical bills cost my family thousands of dollars and my tuition.

• I spent the summer of my Sophomore year of high school taking care of her.

Unseen Victims of Drinking

• My aunt left three children motherless.

• She caused multiple wrecks and injured several families.

• My mother paid for all her medial bills and funeral expense but this cannot replace her sister.

Alcohol Endangers Families

• My grandmother and aunt have been in several drunk driving accidents together leaving there kids and family behind while they continued to drink their lives away.

• On one occasion, my aunt was found passed out beside her car with keys in her hands. She had alcohol poisoning and had to be rushed to the hospital.

Alcohol Poisoning-You Can’t Sleep It Off

Drunk drivers affect…

• Drunk driving not only affects you but your family, friends and the family and friends of the ones whose lives you may be endangering.

In Closing

Drinking

&

Driving

Kills

It only takes

ONE Drink

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