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DRINKING AND DRIVING
By: Hannah Melvin and Courtney Weeks
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FACTS ABOUT DRINKING AND DRIVING *Drinking and Driving is when someone who is intoxicated is driving a vehicle.
*Since September of 2001, over 140,000 men, women, and children have died in America as a result of drunk driving.
*Alcohol related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes.
*Passengers ages 14 years and younger, 66% were riding with an impaired drivers and died.
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DANGERS
Drinking and driving have greater risks of car accidents, highways injuries and vehicular deaths.
DUI-Drinking Under the Influence
1.Fines, possible jail time, license suspension, community service &and mandatory attendance at “DUI School.”
DWI- Driving while intoxicated
1. Jail time, Alcohol treatment programs, and loss of drivers license.
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HOW IT ENDANGERS OTHERS
*Can affect the others on the road with you.
*The passengers are also affected.
*The chance of bumping into another vehicle or a pedestrian are really high.
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AWARENESS
Awareness Programs
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD)
Doctors for Designated Drivers (DFDD)
All Represent a community working to end Drunk Driving
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HOW TO PREVENT IT
*Be responsible.
*Choose a designated driver.
*Call a taxi.
*Hide keys (from a drunk friend)
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HOW TO DETECT A DRUNK DRIVER Stopping without cause
Driving on wrong side of the road
Making wide turns
Almost striking an object or vehicle
Weaving, swerving, drifting, etc.
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TEENAGERS
* Teens are known to have the highest number of drunk driving cases.
*Why you might ask? Statistics prove that the cause of teen alcohol intake is peer pressure.
*Peer Pressure is when one observes others and uses their actions to change their attitude, values, or behaviors to the groups normal.
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Sites
http://learningcenter.statefarm.com/safety-2/auto-2/tips-to-prevent-drinking-and-driving/
http://www.drunkdrivingawareness.org/
http://www.drinkinganddriving.org/
http://www.duifoundation.org/support/awareness/
http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/
http://learningcenter.statefarm.com/safety-2/auto-2/tips-to-prevent-drinking-and-driving/
http://www.drunkdrivingawareness.org/
http://www.drinkinganddriving.org/
http://www.duifoundation.org/support/awareness/
http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/
http://learningcenter.statefarm.com/safety-2/auto-2/tips-to-prevent-drinking-and-driving/
http://www.drunkdrivingawareness.org/
http://www.drinkinganddriving.org/
http://www.duifoundation.org/support/awareness/
http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/
http://learningcenter.statefarm.com/safety-2/auto-2/tips-to-prevent-drinking-and-driving/
http://www.drunkdrivingawareness.org/
http://www.drinkinganddriving.org/
http://www.duifoundation.org/support/awareness/
http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/
DRINKING AND DRIVING
By: Hannah Melvin and Courtney Weeks
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