What would I be leaving behind if I were to lose my life in a crash where either I was under the influence or another driver was under the influence? The first thing that comes to mind is my father, he would be hit the hardest by my death. I’m his only blood child, I’m his world. I never thought of this when I was taking his alcohol in my sophomore year of high school. I didn't think of who would be affected by it. My gram would be losing who would pretty much her daughter because for years of my life she raised me. I’d be leaving behind my family, my best friend, friends who are like family and the families who’ve taken me under their wing behind to mourn the loss of my life. Drinking and driving, in my opinion, is one of the dumbest things …show more content…
that someone can do. It's downright selfish because they have the choice of whether or not to get into that car. Not only are they putting them self at risk, if they hit someone they could kill a father, mother, brother, sister, and so on. It's not worth risking killing someone because you want to drive yourself home because you think that you're experienced enough or whatever your excuse is. Life's too short to make stupid decisions. I will never drink and drive. In the first article, I found there was an unborn child and father killed all at the same time. The driver had a criminal record, and at the time of the accident he was drunk and ran a stop sign. Barbara Barranco was seven months pregnant and in this crash lost the baby. Her husband was in critical condition on his way to the hospital and was pronounced dead at the hospital. This driver with previous offenses still made the decision to drink and drive and he killed two people because he didn't think of the consequences of his actions could be. He got to walk out of that accident, a father of what would have been soon to be of three children didn't get to walk out of that accident with injuries that he could have healed from. The unborn child didn't even get to enter the world before they died. The drunk driver gets to sit in jail and hold the murder of a father and child on his conscious for the rest of his life like he deserves because he decided to drink and drive knowing the risks of the impairment that alcohol causes. That poor woman lost her child and her husband all in one day. I can only imagine how difficult it is to go home to her other two children and have to explain that their father won't be coming home ever and that they won't have the baby sister they had been looking forward to meeting. If it had been me I would have taken my kids with me to court and made the drunk driver explain what he did and why my kids no longer had a father, because that's the guilt he deserves to hold for the idiotic decision he made. There was an incident down south where there was a driver who was under the influence of a drug.
He killed an elderly woman and injured her grandchild. This driver had blown through a red light and hit the Grandmother with his pickup truck. He had previous offenses where he failed to stop and I feel there may be a chance that he was under the influence those times also. He also likes the last person I read about got to walk out of this with minor injuries. This 10-year-old boy saw his grandmother die and he will have to live with that for the rest of his life because of something he had no control over. The young boy's name was Gavin, and in this article, there is no report of parents. This woman may have very well been the guardian of this child and now he lost her because Cameron Burrows couldn't make the right decision to not operate under the influence of drugs. He made the selfish decision of driving with drugs in his system now there is a grandmother, mother, sister, by the name of Sandra Kay Deboer who lost her life leaving her family behind. The worst part is that this man will most likely do this again and put another family at …show more content…
risk. I would never be able to live with myself if I killed someone in my family or my child like James Lukasz did. Police said that he was under the influence of Crystal meth. Meth is a poison that gets snorted and starts to kill the body in the first use, those who use this drug can develop brain damage permanently impairing them. He was also under the influence of marijuana, which is just like drinking and driving. This man couldn't think of the well being of his two boys who had no choice but to be in the car with him. They probably didn't even know he was under the influence. James stupid decision of mixing drugs and driving killed one of his little boys and injured himself and his other son. He deserves whatever guilt he feels because he killed his own child because he didn't think of what he was doing or about the well-being of his children. On top of him being under the influence, he also did not make sure his children were properly restrained in the car, further putting his two children in danger. James lied to the police saying that his kids were in booster seats even though when there was an evaluation done there was a single booster set on the floor of the vehicle. Yet again the driver who was under the influence got to walk out of the crash alive, hurt but alive. A parent is supposed to put their child before themselves but this father of two chose drugs over his children and put them in danger killing a child who only lived to be 3 years old. It breaks my heart. Sean Leonard killed himself and his three passengers back in 2011.
He was under the influence of Marijuana and Alcohol which was discovered during the autopsy. Police found that he was going 99 mph at the time of the accident and did not compensate the curve of the road causing them to cross into oncoming traffic and roll over the edge straight into a stone wall. Teens go through courses to get their driver's license where they learn the percentage of car crashes that involve teens. One would think that they would know better than to get into a car with someone who is under the influence, although they might have been under the same stimulant they should have been able to tell that their friend was in no condition to drive and this was proven by the crash. These teens weren’t thinking about their families when they got into the car with an impaired driver because if they had they wouldn't have gotten into that car and would still be alive today. Not only did he kill himself and friends he killed his younger sister and that means his parents lost both of their kids, my heart goes out to families who lose their children who are victims of car crashes not involving and involving drugs. No parent should have to lose their
child. In reading these articles it has opened my eyes and shown me that it truly could happen to anyone. In writing this paper my writing is very biased because I hate drugs and find people who choose drugs over life selfish because they don't think of who they could be hurting and the people that they are leaving behind. They don’t think and make decisions that could end their life or someone else's. I would never be able to live with myself if killed someone because I made the decision to drive impaired. I will never do anything to impair my driving because I care too much about the people around me and I would never want my family to have to live with losing me because I chose drugs or alcohol over life and drove irresponsibly.
While researching this case I stumbled upon many others and I became aware of how many people have suffered from the injustice of being found guilty. While reading parts of the book “Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death the Story of Steven Truscott” I learned that the police played a large role in why 14-year-old Truscott was found guilty of murder. The book showed that they forced witnesses to change their story to further “prove” Truscott’s guilt of the crime. This led to the conclusion that in this case (like many others) the police were solely and unjustly targeting one
It is sad to see this happen to White because if she had not made the choice to get behind the wheel intoxicated, she could have prevented this whole situation. It made matters worse when White found out she killed two young girls. Before going to jail, White looked at her own children and immediately thought of the two girls she killed. She had children of her own, so whenever she thought of her children, she was reminded of the two lives she killed. She couldn’t imagine her life if the two girls were her own daughters. She not only changed her own life forever, but she greatly impacted another family. Thinking about this situation, I can’t imagine altering my life or someone else’s life in this traumatic way. This particular aspect left an impression on me because I would not be able to live with the guilt of killing two young children. I would have to live my life thinking about a family whose life I have changed forever. In addition, White’s own family was changed forever. Her family depended on her for multiple things, but because she was impaired and unable to think rationally, their lives were forever changed. They needed to reassess their lives, assign new roles, and figure out how to live on their own. White’s decision to
The case mentioned earlier is still in action. Nearly a decade later, Stanford is still fighting death row. He is now about 27 but should still be looked at as the same age he was when he was initially charged, 17.
If one person decides to drive home drunk from a party then that person has a chance of getting into a head on collision with others. That choice to drive drunk has just endangered countless lives of innocent people on the road.
Do you know how many people die each year of Drunk Driving ? that’s right a lot nearly 25,000 people die each can you believe it . If you don't like to follow the rules you either get jail time , a harsh punishment ,lose your license not bad right ? It’s not bad its horrible how of one dumb mistake you make you lose everything instantly . You lose your family , your life ,your car , people you love , there’s no going back . Unless you have some kind of magic powers which nobody does . The punishments you get are pretty bad they have different ones in each country . For Example in Turkey you have to walk 2 miles away from your town with a police escort. In other countries you lose your license forever.
There is knocking at a door late at night, and there a policeman standing at the door with information that a family member was in an accident that involved a drunk driver. This is one of those things people hear and believe that it will not happen, but it happens every day. Every 40 minutes, someone in the U.S. is killed by a drunk driver and in 2008, in Montana, 40 percent of all traffic fatalities involved DUIs (“Drunk Driving” 1). Drunk Driving affects everyone and people in Montana should look at what other states do to find ways to make the laws tougher and more enforced.
Drunk driving happens when families gather at parties, games, or even away on vacations. Do not let a family member and friends stir in this terrible way, and help them decide better. Also, drunk driving does not just hurt the family member of the victim, but other families. “In 2013, 10,076 people were killed and approximately 290,000 were injured. Each crash, each death, each injury impacts not only the person in the crash, but family, friends, classmates, coworkers and more.” Just to imagine that even blows the minds of many people. Drunk driving is a problem that affects everyone, regardless of age or class. In the United States drunk driving is a threat to families, because poor low-income families lose their love ones in a driving accident involving alcohol; dead and gone forever to be here for their love ones, that person could have been their number one source of financial income for that family. In addition, individuals involved in a repeated drunk driving should not be able to purchase a car, for the safety of the communities. They’re one other frightful, ghastly story that happens to a close family friend who happens to be driving one night from school. She was driving home, when she realized a car popped in front of her, spinning around violently. In panic, she had no clue what to do since the road; she was traveling on was one way only. She sat there, her vision blurred, and she needed a plan to escape this horrifying moment, but her brain was in shock. As the car came closer, she closed her eyes, and that was the dreadful car crash that killed Cali in the summer of 2013. Although, Cali 's death could have been prevented if only the driver had not driven in a drunken state, because This did not only took the life of a loved one, but it 's left her two daughters motherless and no one to take care of since their dad was careless, and was not there for them. Couple days later child services took the kids to a
According to Levinthal (2011), alcohol is called the hidden drug because an alcoholic does not need to find a drug dealer on the street; instead it is legally available and has no criminal sanctions attached to its use; alcoholism is therefore easily hidden from friends and family. Unfortunately, drunk driving is the leading cause of deaths on roadways, and in addition causes hundreds of boating accidents as well. Fortunately, with the legal drinking age set at twenty one and the reduction in the BAC level of intoxication set to 0.08, there have been positive results in minimizing alcohol related deaths annually.
On May 18th, 2017 a vehicle struck pedestrians on a sidewalk in New York City's Times Square, tragically killing one individual and injuring 20 others. The driver of the vehicle drove a red Honda sedan against traffic and the car crashed into a pole and came to rest on 45th Street and Broadway before police took the driver away. Police confirmed the person who was killed was 18-year-old Alyssa Elsman of Portage, Michigan. Elsman's 13-year-old sister was also injured in the incident. The driver, 26-year-old Richard Rojas from the city's Bronx borough, was identified as the suspect. Rojas faces 20 counts of attempted murder, one count of aggravated vehicular homicide and a count of attempted murder in the second degree, according to the criminal complaint. The tragic accident could have been avoided if Richard Rojas attended a psychiatric rehabilitation with his mental health counselor, more security should have been around the Times Square area, and he should have had his license taken away after the DUI charges he faced back in 2008 and 2015. (cnbc.com)
During the dark hours, my grandfather was walking the streets in El Monte, California. It never crossed his mind that during that night his life would flash before his eyes. He was at a crosswalk where he pressed the button to cross the street. Once the cross light switched for him to cross, he did. He took his first step off the sidewalk and began walking. My grandfather did not realize what was to come once he stepped off the sidewalk. A car approached going over the speed limit. The person in the car was under the influence and ran a red light. It was then that my grandfather was hit by a drunk driver. My grandfather passed away at the sight of the scene. The young adult that hit him was taken into custody and put on trial for my grandfather’s death. If it wasn’t for the drunk driver who ran the red light that night my grandfather would still be alive today. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Today there are
For many years, drunk driving casualties have been viewed differently. Many believe that drunk driving laws are strict while others believe that it is too lenient. In this generations, where alcohol is cheap and very accessible many tends to abuse it. This people who abuse alcohol is known as drunk drivers because after taking three or four drinks they still believe that they are not drunk and goes back to the wheel of their vehicle without thinking of what will happen next. This drunk drivers are willing to risk their lives and the lives of others because they are ashamed or too big to call a family member or a designated drivers to take them home. If they are lucky and did not die on their way home. Then they create this dangerous cycle of
As I walked out of the courthouse and down the ramp, I looked at my mom in disappointment and embarrassment. Never wanting to return to that dreadful place, I slowly drug my feet back to the car. I wanted to curl up in a little ball and I didn't want anyone else to know what I had done. Gaining my composure, I finally got into the car. I didn't even want to hear what my mom had to say. My face was beat red and I was trying to hide my face in the palms of my hands because I knew what was about to come; she was going to start asking me questions, all of the questions I had been asking myself. Sure enough, after a short period of being in the car, the questions began.
Drinking and driving is a serious and dangerous problem around the world for many people. Many people every year are killed or injured because of drunk drivers. When a person’s blood alcohol content, known as BAC, is over the legal limit he becomes much more impaired and are at a higher risk of hurting himself or others while driving on the road. The majority of people who drive when under the influence of drugs or alcohol do not believe that their skills are affected until after they face a challenging or dangerous situation. It is then they realize their coordination and ability to think and respond according to the certain situation is affected. Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs make people drowsy, causes problems with focusing
Disappointment, disbelief and fear filled my mind as I lye on my side, sandwiched between the cold, soft dirt and the hot, slick metal of the car. The weight of the car pressed down on the lower half of my body with monster force. It did not hurt, my body was numb. All I could feel was the car hood's mass stamping my body father and farther into the ground. My lungs felt pinched shut and air would neither enter nor escape them. My mind was buzzing. What had just happened? In the distance, on that cursed road, I saw cars driving by completely unaware of what happened, how I felt. I tried to yell but my voice was unheard. All I could do was wait. Wait for someone to help me or wait to die.
Drunk driving is extremely impactful on the lives of you and others. While drinking and driving, you are not just endangering yourself, you are also endangering the lives of others. The driver of the car does not just control the car with their hands and feet. They need their brain to function properly so that you are able to react to objects on the road quicker and control the car. If you drink then drive/ drink while driving. Alcohol affects your brain in many ways that inhibit your ability to drive. Alcohol will affect your reaction time, it slows your reflexes which decrease your ability to react to objects on the road. It affects your vision, in can impair your color perception, and night vision. It slows down the movement in the muscles in your eye causing your visual perception to change. Alcohol affects your ability to track. You will not be able to judge the position of cars ahead of you, you won’t be able to judge the