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Student Name Professor Name Subject 8 May 2000 Drunk Driving Drunk driving in our society has remained a serious problem now for many years, and will continue to be an issue. Driving while either intoxicated or drunk is dangerous and drivers with high blood alcohol content or concentration are at a greatly increased risk of car accidents, highway injuries, and vehicular deaths (Drinking & Driving). Every single injury and death that relates back to driving while intoxicated is completely preventable. Even though the number of drunken driving crashes and injuries has decreased so significantly, driving while impaired is the most frequently crime committed in America every day, yet there are still people who believe legalizing drunk driving will help to benefit our society. Legalizing drunk driving will not reduce both the incidence and danger of driving under the influence; it will only increase the endangering of innocent peoples lives, along with the drivers lives. The most important thing when driving a car is quick response to everything that happens on the road. Alcohol reduces the reaction greatly and for a long period of time. Another danger is in the fact that alcohol dulls the instinct for survival. Very often, drunk drivers are speeding on the road, oblivious to traffic lights and road signs. Often such "entertainment" end sadly and drastically. Self-assessment of the drunk man is rarely objective and often many drivers are unable to adequately assess the degree of intoxication and thus overestimate their abilities. It is a real mystery why people still think that drunk driving is something that is not dangerous for others and for themselves as well. Many people drink in the companies or at the parties and do really silly and provocative things, which they are embarrassed to remember next day or later.

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They say something like I was drunk and inadequate. I could not assess the situation properly; I could not response for my actions. And such things are common and understood to be not very wise but rather normal. So, why people think that if they are drunk and inadequate enough to fall into the swimming pull fully clothed they are responsible and adequate enough to drive safely and not damage the car or kill someone or themselves? Drunk person has no longer the important qualities to perform good driving. In this case the person is able to lift, he feels fine, but it can perform a danger, which in a sober state he would try to avoid. He thinks everything is fine, when in fact his ability had become worse, and if he does not crash without coming into place, it is often due to caution other drivers. An experienced driver does not think drinking makes his reflexes better. More than once it was determined that it is very far from the truth. And Buddy T. confirms this idea with his statement: For the person who is drinking, the above impairments may be hardly noticeable at the time, but the slow reaction times that they can produce could prove fatal in an emergency driving situation. That's why it is not a good idea to drive no matter how much or how little that you have had to drink. It is evident and clear that drinking affects everyone differently, but no one is protected from the possible negative and dramatic influence of alcohol. An experienced driver knows that there is no effective "antidote" against alcohol, and estimates that he does not cheer up, drinking strong coffee. A good driver will not drink when he is driving, and get behind the wheel when he used alcohol.

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The simple truth about the drunk driving is that it kills people. It kills people daily, weekly, monthly and annually. According to the statistics on average someone is killed by a drunk driver every 40 minutes. (NHSTA 2008). These numbers are drastic. Imagine that you sit in the room with other five people. If all of you decide to go to the street and walk, according to the statistic in four hours all of you might be killed by drunk drivers. Impressive possibility, is not it? Before drinking and driving everyone should imagine that at the same time his relatives, parents, friends or children are in danger of being killed by the same drunk driver. But the truth is that drunk person cannot often imagine such logical items, because his mind does not work properly, his brains are under the strong toxic attack. Most of the drivers are aware of the situation with drunk driving. Information about it is opened and performed by different web-resources. But still: Each year, approximately half a million people are injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was presentan average of one person injured approximately every minute. (Blincoe, Seay et al., 2002). And as I have already written almost all of these accidents were preventable. Taxies are not so expansive and they are everywhere. More and more restaurants have so-called drunk parking zones where guest can leave their cars if they are not able to drive and pick it the next day. Such position of the restaurants performs its social responsibility and willing to make this country safer for their own families and friends. The fact is that there are several arguments which support the legalization of the drunk driving. It is evident, because it is a social item, and it has to have different sides and opinions about it.

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Those people who support the legalization of increasing the level of legalized blood alcohol concentration (BAC) a sure that there is no way to control people who drink one-two glasses of wine or beer and then just go home. From the other hand our jails are full of drugusers, and it is evident that now we cannot control them in the streets. But it does not mean we should stop trying. These people confirm that arresting of the drunk drivers is very expensive for the society, and we can reduce those costs by providing only fines for this offence. Arresting and keeping people arrested for drunk driving is really expensive. Approximately 1.46 million drivers were arrested in 2006 for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. This is an arrest rate of 1 for every 139 licensed drivers in the United States. (NHTSA, 2008) But the fact is that crashes caused by the drunk drivers are far more expensive. Statistics show that: alcohol-related crashes cost the public an estimated $114.3 billion annually this includes an estimated $63.2 billion lost in quality of life due to these crashes. (Taylor, Miller, and Cox, 2002) It would be really great if we have spoken only about money, but I have to remind you that we speak about lives and health of people which had become the victims of the crashes caused by the drunk drivers. We cannot estimate the tragedy of their families and we should not put it at the same scale with the cost of trial for the drunk drivers. All these facts confirm my key statement that legalizing drunk driving will not reduce both the incidence and danger of driving under the influence; it will only increase the endangering of innocent peoples lives, along with the drivers lives.

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Works Cited Buddy T. "Drunk Driving - The Dangers." About.com Alcoholism. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/drive/a/aa070297.htm Drinking & Driving." WWW2 Webserver.Web. 19 Feb. 2012. http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrinkingAndDriving.html Drunk Driving Facts - Drunk Driving Statistics. DUI - Drunk Driving - Driving Under the Influence - Drinking and Driving.Web. 19 Feb. 2012. http://dui.lifetips.com/cat/61352/drunk-driving-facts-stats/index.html Khan, Dr. Sumaiya."Drinking and Driving Facts."Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web. Web. 19 Feb. 2012. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/drinking-and-drivingfacts.html MADD. "Drunk Driving in America." Drunk Driving in America. MADD. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. http://www.madd.org/media-center/media-library/Drunk-Driving-in-America101408.pdf