Imagine yourself at work, minding your own business when out of nowhere, your boss comes up to you with a message. He bluntly states that your child was driving intoxicated and was in a car accident. He is in the hospital, seeking immediate medical attention. You rush to the hospital to find your precious child in bandages, hooked up to an I.V. and multiple other machines that are obscure to you. You feel a warm, moist breath in your ear that gently says, “I don’t think he/she is going to make it.” You dropped to your knees and let out a deep, sorrowful cry, “Why god? Why him/her? Take me instead! I will do anything to save my baby!” While this is just one situation, it happens more often than one would think. Drunk driving has been an issue …show more content…
As you can see, this travesty is a danger to society. Contemporarily, one person dies while driving under the influence of alcohol every 53 minutes (Intoxalock). That is matter is becoming so absurd that one person is dying within each hour; this crisis needs to be halted. Each day, citizens drive intoxicated almost 300,000 times, but only 4,000 of them become reprimanded. Albeit little solutions have been invented for this catastrophe, I have developed two that might be effective. One solution to remedy the problem is to change how children are being educated about drunk driving. If implemented, children will learn about how terrible drunk driving really is. Another solution is to install a breathalyzer into every car. A breathalyzer lets you know what one’s alcohol levels are. These solutions, if properly executed, could make drastic …show more content…
First, the school needs to implement more engaging assemblies into the school’s agenda. These assemblies really need to connect with the students on an emotional level. For example, the school can interview someone that has been reprimanded for drunk driving. They can also have people from jail come to the school and explain how they were convicted for killing a family, while they were under the influence of alcohol when they were driving. Nobody likes to listen to a regular, boring presentation that half the class uses as nap time; although this sounds terrible, people like hearing about extreme incidents where people their age go to jail for life because they can relate to it. Additionally, the high school students of the town can work on an interactive project on drunk driving so they can find out the information on their own. The high schoolers will then present that information to the children in middle school. Once the middle school students hear the information from high schoolers, they will believe that drunk driving is uncool and they will never attempt it. Both of these miraculous solutions can be implemented by contacting the board of education about how serious this crisis really is. If they agree with that claim, hopefully, they will have no problem including one of these methods in next school year’s schedule. In conclusion, altering the way the school