Essays on Impaired Driving

What is the scope of the social justice issue?

Driving under influence of alcohol is associated with occurrence of accidents. Alcohol causes impaired judgments and individuals cannot make accurate decisions regarding traffic rules and driving becomes a challenge since the operation of the vehicle itself is not well coordinated such as speed and lane discipline (Rand et al., 2012). Consequently, accidents such as falling off ditches, vehicle collisions occur resulting to death of individuals and serious injuries that leaves some people totally disabled. Drivers under influence of alcohol are not only a risk to the people on board but also to the pedestrians and other road users. This ...

I believe that drivers should treat alcohol-impaired driving issue very seriously as they are responsible for their family and other people, who might be involved in a car accident and get hurt. The best approach to prevent alcohol-impaired driving problem is to enact strict law and improve public knowledge of alcohol-impaired driving. As such a hard punishment, tough new law against drinking under the alcohol influence has cut 40% of car accident which relate to alcohol over past years in B.C provincial roads ("CBC.ca - Canadian News Sports Entertainment Kids Docs Radio TV", 2016). This statistics shows that governments ...

Everybody has the right to choose the kind of life that they want, but they should be guided at every turn to choose a life that does force them into an early grave, a lifetime in prison, or the guilt of knowing that they have deprived an individual of the right to live. When a drunken driver causes damage or even death to any member of the society, this becomes a criminal offence. They choose to drink and drive knowing that driving under the influence of alcohol can only lead to negative consequences. The government of every country has a duty to correct negative ...

Audience: Drivers who believe that there should be lenient sentencing for first time offenders, or who are otherwise against mandatory confinement laws. Message: We should carefully consider, and set legal statutes based on the benefits of implementing a mandatory jail sentence of a minimum of two weeks for all drunk driving offenders. Purpose: To get people to see that there are advantages to requiring a minimum 2 week jail sentence on all drivers arrested for DUI.

The question of how best to both punish and rehabilitate drunk driving offenders has been a topic of serious debate for more than 30 years. ...

Introduction

Drunk driving is the operation of automobiles while one is under the influence of mind intoxicating drugs and or alcohol. It remains a serious public health issue that should become the concern of the society that we live in today. Driving while under the influence of these drugs or alcohol has brought serious tales that people fear to tell or to be told. The number of road accidents that could have otherwise have been avoided have been on the rise as a consequence of drunk driving. There are families that have lost their loved ones to accidents that have resulted from ...

Why Drunk Driving?

Drunk driving is the operation of motor vehicles while one is under alcohol influence (Beck 1696). The influence is to a great degree such that the motor and mental skills become impaired. Is there any one jurisdiction in the United States that drunk driving is not illegal? Not one. Illegal as it is, why is it so prevalent and causing so many fatalities? It is because of the law enforcement in different states. The law enforcement against this vice varies within territories in our beloved country. Drunk driving became a major societal problem immediately the automobile became popularly used (Boufard and ...

Impaired Driving

Impaired Driving

Introduction

This essay discusses the extent of the problems caused by impaired driving – i.e. driving whilst affected by either alcohol or drugs. The seriousness of these problems can be gauged by a CDC statistic: “Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 51 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $59 billion.” (“Impaired Driving: Get the Facts” 2014). The essay also looks at preventative measures that are used.

Whilst any one of us may or may not know someone ...

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INTRODUCTION

Police patrols are integral in the proper functioning of a community, and the safety of a community can often be changed with a little bit of oversight insofar as police patrols are concerned. Police patrols may take a number of different forms, including foot patrols, car patrols bike patrols, and even horse patrols can reduce the incidence of crime in any given neighborhood at any given time. In most areas, patrol officers are uniformed officers that patrol a given area; some areas even have community patrols, made up of volunteer members of the community, often individuals that live in the neighborhood ...

It is often common to hear in the news regarding incidents of motorcycle and vehicular accidents due to drunk driving. Some of the suspected motorists would often deny such allegations even if the police would already notice signs of being under the influence of alcohol, blaming the other party for the accident. In some cases, the motorists would even deny being under the influence of alcohol, while a few would visibly display the signs of being sober and smell drunk. No one is exempted to this trend when it comes to drivers drunk driving, may one would be a simple citizen ...

Introduction

Marijuana aka Cannabis sativa is illegal under the federal law of the US. Under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, marijuana is listed as the Schedule I drug meaning that marijuana has high potential of drug abuse and serves no confirmed medical purpose. However, defying the federal laws, California, Washington DC and 16 other states have legalized the use of marijuana. In the US, over 39% people have used marijuana at least once many of whom have later become addicted to the drug. Marijuana addiction is pretty common especially among young adults aged between 18 and 25. In 2004, ...