So that being the case, you should always take the proper steps. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance that you will be involved in a car accident involving a drunk driver at some point in your life. School-based programs are excellent at convincing kids and teenagers not to ride with people who have been drinking. Reaching kids before they turn into adults is another effective way to reduce the rate of drunk driving. Mass media campaigns are another effective way to keep people from getting behind the wheel after drinking.ĭemonizing drunk driving in the media and explaining the dangers and consequences of driving drunk can go a long way in convincing people not to drive drunk. There’s nothing like knowing a cop and a possible conviction and jail time is going to be waiting for you down the road after a long night of drinking to keep you from driving. Sobriety checkpoints are another step, no matter how annoying they might be, that can be taken to keep people from driving drunk.
These laws already exist, but they obviously don’t stop all occurrences from happening. In fatal car accidents in 2014, the largest percentage of drunk drivers were those from 21 to 24, 30 of all accidents. This is more than 300,000 incidents of drinking and driving each day. We can create a future of No More Victims, but we have to do it together In 2017, 10,874 people died in drunk driving crashes one every 48 minutes and. The first step would be to implement laws and fines that discourage people from drinking and driving. Americans drank too much and drove 121 million times in the last year. It seems easy, right? Just stop doing it.īut there must be more to it than that since it keeps happening.
So what can we do to stop people from drinking and driving?
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