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Alcohol related crashes kill about ten thousand people per year in the United States. That is thirty people a day that's one person every forty-eight minutes. When under the influence of alcohol can have a slowed reaction time and the ability to act gone. In the United States the legal limit is zero point eight Blood alcohol Concentration (BAC) yet problems start at zero point two BAC. Drunk Driving is a major problem in my opinion that causes injuries and financial issues the problem can start with you as the solution.
Since 1980 the number of alcohol related crashes has decreased because of public awareness and law enforcement campaigns. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states that there are about eleven thousand fatalities per year due to alcohol related crashes. In 2017, alcohol was a factor in twenty-nine percent of all fatal motor crashes in the United States nineteen percent of those crashes involving children fourteen and under. Alcohol related crashes carry about a fifty-two billion dollar burden according to the NHTSA. This estimate accounts for medical expenses, legal expenses, court costs, property damage, insurance administration, lost employee productivity, workplace losses, and traffic congestion resulting from the incidents and subsequent investigations. The NHTSA reports that approximately eighty-four percent of these costs are incurred from crashes involving a driver with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) equal to or exceeding the standard legal limit of 0.08 grams of alcohol per decilitre of blood.
Though road safety has improved impaired driving still has an involvement in more than ten thousand traffic casualties every year. More than one point four million drivers were taken into custody with the influence of alcohol or drugs and only one hundred and twelve million admitted to being impaired while driving. With a cost of more than fifty billion dollars alcohol-related crashes are still a problem. Young people between twenty-one and twenty-four years of age make up the majority of drivers above the legal limit this means they make up ninety percent of all crashes with fatalities. More than half of them are driving on a suspended drivers license. Forty-four states, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands impose mandatory license suspensions for a driver's first alcohol-related offense. In most cases these suspensions range from thirty to one-hundred days but the one enforced most often is just ninety days.
Law enforcement may also impound or confiscate vehicles if necessary. States also require an ignition interlock program where a breathalyzer test is required to start the car. Serious offenders may have to surrender their tags for special ones that indicates that they are previous offenders of drunk driving. Some steps already taken to stop drunk driving are for one sobriety checkpoints. At sobriety checkpoints police will stop some or all drivers to test driver sobriety. Other steps taken to stop drunk driving are public awareness campaigns and student awareness campaigns.
My way of solving this issue is to set the legal all to 0.05 or lower and maybe a slightly harsher punishment. Another good way is to always have a designated driver. But really the best way to prevent it is to not do it at all.
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