For this blog I would like to talk about drinking and driving. This blog I will also be connecting it to one of our essential questions in the english 12 class. The essential question I have decided to choose was, What are the most effective ways to produce social change. As you read this I want you to see that there are always other options to get home if you have been drinking. I also want you to think about this question: is 1 or 2 drinks worth the life of someone else’s life?
My last blog I had a story and it was my story, for this blog I don’t have a story to share. However I believe this is still an important topic that needs to be talked about and shared with others. When you decide to drink and drive you are not only putting yourself at risk but others as well. It does not matter if it is 1 shot or just 1 drink. You are still consuming alcohol and putting people in danger.
I find this topic also important to me because you are driving a machine that could kill you and others. That’s a big thing when you die or kill someone else, your family and the victim’s family has to deal with their loss or other medical issues that happened. For the drivers family they will have to either deal with a lose because you died or killed someone that was driving with you. The the drunk driver depending on how much they have consumed they can walk away with little to no issues because they are so relaxed or don’t remember anything. This is the case for most of the drivers. The victims’ families have to deal with the fact that they are dead, hurt very badly or they will walk away with little to no issues which is hardly ever the case.
Teens and adults are very different and the rates of their driving. With teens I personally believe they are worse because we can’t control how much we drink. Sometimes we just drink and drink and drink and don’t stop. Others will say I can have one and be fine. In this case that’s great you can have one drink but you are not 21 therefore it is still illegal for you to drive. Parents can buy their kids alcohol and teens can also find people to buy it for us. Teens are more likely to make this bad decision because they don’t think, they just want to be cool in front of their friends or truly believe that they are fine and can drive. Parties for teens are a big thing for teens cause there is alcohol supplied no one takes their keys unless there is a parent there. Parties I would say is the number one issue on how teens get into accidents.
For adults it is still not a good thing to drink, but I believe because they have been drinking for a long time they know the legal limit and can actually tell when they have had too much they know when to stop. Adults also eat when they drink and keep eating to help with the alcohol where as a teen will sometimes just slam drinks on an empty stomach. Adults Don’t always make good decisions and drink a lot and get into a car and start driving. That is not a good thing on the adults part. Adults are way more likely to stop after one drink and wait before leaving a restaurant or there home to drive.
Some ways to help reduce drunk driving accidents is you can Uber,take a lift, taxi, have a friend that will not drink drive you guys. Uber is a great source to us especially on New Year’s Eve because they do free rides home that one night. It is a great way to get home if you have drank a little too much. It’s free and you will be safe on the way home. All of these transportation ideas. Can help save your life and someone else’s life. With these transportation ideas this tries to my essential question. Uber is making a social change by making rides home completely free on the one night that most people will get trashed and have no way home because they can’t drive.
Uber is helping the crashes that help on this night go down because they are taking people home free of charge and can are helping those who drink get home safe and making it so there are less drunk drivers out on New Year’s Eve. This idea helps make a change and helps others that are not drunk safe while driving. I am sure more car services do this too. I just know Uber does it.
I hope you learned more about drinking and driving and how there are other options for you other than driving yourself home and thinking you are fine when you probably aren’t. Be that safe driver that can save your life and others by not driving while drunk.
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