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Alchohol - Term Papers

Alchohol

Have you or someone you know ever been to a party and got drunk and then drove home? The next morning did you ever wonder what might have happened if you had been in a crash? Did you know that about half of all highway deaths are alcohol-related? There are about 25,000 every year. Or did you ever think about the fact that alcohol-related crashes kill more teenagers every year than any disease? Have you ever thought to yourself, “what if I had killed someone last night while I was driving under the influence of alcohol? Was it someone I knew that I had hurt? What if it was my best friend?” Would you be willing to risk hurting or killing yourself, your friends, or others just for the ...

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result from motor vehicle accidents.
- Nearly half of these fatalities (38.9 %) were caused by alcohol-related accidents.
- Estimates are that 2,222 persons’ ages 16 - 20 died in alcohol-related accidents in the year

1994.

(NHTSA, 1995)

- Based upon 1992 data, an estimated one out of every 280 babies born today will die in a crash involving an intoxicated driver.
(NHTSA, 1996
- More than 40% of all the 16 - to - 20 - year Olds that passed away in the year 1994 were killed in car accidents. The excessive use of alcohol was the cause of nearly half of these accidents.
Alcohol affects the body, and while under the influence, it also impairs the ability to drive. The alcohol most severely affects the control center of the body, the brain. There are seven very important ways that alcohol affects the body, each one having a direct effect on a persons driving ability; First, it affects a persons reaction time, tracking examples: ...

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Added: 7/14/2006 06:08:28 AM
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