About and estimated of 32% of fatal car crashes involve an intoxicated driver or pedestrian.
Drinking alcohol and driving will definitely lead to fatal consequences. The human brain has to deal with many things and process countless data all the time. Alcohol affects attentiveness and the indivuals ability to make swift decisions on the road, react to changes in the environment and execute specific, often difficult maneuvers behind the wheel. When drinking alcohol, driving becomes dangerous – and potentially fatal.
Even with all public awareness on the media, drinking and drugged driving still remains a large problem that needs to be solved immedietely. Around 13,000 people are killed each year in alcohol-related accidents. Including that statisitc, hundereds of thousands more are injured to the point where they cant even do everyday tasks. Alcohol-related crashes cost American taxpayers over $100 billion to pay with all the physical and mental damage it causes. Over 1.4 million arrests for DWI each year (less than 1% of 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving) and 780,000 are convicted. With around two-thirds of those sentenced to incarceration are repeat offenders.
Although thousands of lives are saved each year by both designated drivers and those who don't let friends or others drive drunk, many more are needlessly lost. Each such death is a tragedy affecting many others who are left suffering and grieving. Be a designated driver . . . be a Hero.
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