There are also people speaking against drinking alcohol, warning students of the dangers of alcohol from the speaker’s own personal experience like Aaron Cooksey. In July 2001, Aaron Cooksey was driving drunk when he got into a wreck, killing his best friend Andrea Calderone. Cooksey spent 4 years in prison and later on went to speak to students at Kettering Fairmont High school. "...999 times out of a thousand nothing bad happens, but that one time everything changes forever," Cooksey said. (Simon qtd. Cooksey 1)
With high school students aware of the dangers of drinking and driving, most college students use designated driving to keep themselves and others driving on the road safe. A strategy invented in the 80’s, when a group is in a
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Many drivers, although they are aware of the law and consequences, still continue to drink and drive.
“These “normal” drunk drivers appear to be reacting more to the public understandings of DUI than in accordance with their own behavior. They refuse to see their own alcohol consumption and drunk driving as problematic precisely because they do not regard themselves as alcoholics or as leading a
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The best options would be to either take the deviant drinkers car away by using alcohol interlocks or by suspending or revoking license priviledges. The first option would most likely not work because just like most drugs and guns, where there is a will there is a way. The driver would simply borrow someone else’s car in order to get to where they need to go or they would wait until their interlocks are removed. According to Susan Fleming, “Ignition interlocks reduce the rate of re-arrest for DWI while they are installed on the vehicle, but once removed, DWI re-arrest rates return to pre-interlock rates.” (Fleming