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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