Drinking And Driving

Drinking and Driving

Today, you as an individual have your own rights. You can choose to do whatever you please but you’re only allowed to do things without a consequence as long as it abides by the law. Fail to meet these standards and you will find yourself in handcuffs or in jail. One law that most people don’t follow is drinking and driving. Drinking and driving can have many consequences from your actions.
Many people don’t even realize they are too intoxicated to drive. When you drink too much, it alters your perceptions, emotions, movement, vision, and hearing. Alcohol is a depressant that hinders the central nervous system from working properly. It blocks the messages trying to be delivered to the brain. A person may think it is all right for them to drive and think that they can do it. But in reality they can’t and that fact causes many accidents and deaths each year. Statistics show that every year, over 17,000 people in America are killed in drunk driving accidents and 500,000 people are injured.
Drunk driving can hurt everyone, not just yourself. Drinking can kill your brain cells, destroy your liver, your motor skills, your personal record, and all of your accomplishments up until the moment you choose to get into a car intoxicated. Every time you make the choice to drink you’re making the choice to alter your body. Drinking is one of the known causes of cancer in the liver and will ultimately lead to a painful death. At the time, most people don’t even recognize the consequences so that, in turn, only makes the choice that much worse because you’re making it based on the moment and not a long-term decision. The second you make the choice to even get into a vehicle, you’re not only risking your safety and health but you’re risking your freedom. Once a person is arrested or incarcerated from a DUI (driving under the influence) or DWI (driving while intoxicated) it will be on their record indefinitely and is extremely hard to take off. That is...