Thursday, November 13, 2008

Current News...

;">Drinking and driving has always been a big issue since the 1990's. The United States was given a a "c" grade in the war on drunk driving. In the year of 2007 17,448 people were killed in an alcohol-related crashes representing 41 percent of all traffic deaths. More than 500,000 Americans are injured annually in crashes involving alcohol. Drunk Driving affects all of our life's whether we realize3 it or not. Every single injury and death caused by drunk driving is totally preventable, although the proportion of crashes that are related has dropped dramatically in recent decades. There's still to many such preventable accidents. Alcohol impaired driving remains a serious National problem that tragically effects many victims annually. There has been a lot of arguments one of them was " If I'm older enough to go to war then I'm old enough to drink. This was a really strong argument. The fact to this argument is that citizens are legally adults at the age of 18. Another argument about drinking and driving is " Europeans let their teens drink from an early age yet they don't have the alcohol problem we do." It seems that alcohol has always been around and a lot of accidents have occurred.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Where are your sources?