Drunk Driving
            
             The definition of drunk driving is when a motorist is driving with their blood alcohol (BAC) is over the legal limit, which is commonly .1. Drunk driving is a very sensitive and very serious topic in today's society. There are car accidents every day that take lives and can be avoided very easily. In the year 2000 alone, and average of just over 45 people a day die from accidents where a drunken diver was at fault. Drunk driving is very hypersensitive topic because everyone knows how easily this can be avoided. Regardless, people still drink and still find the need to drive, putting many drivers and passengers at risk.
             Although the percent of people killed in drunk driver related accident compared to the number of killed in general car accidents has gone down, it is still to much fully knowing that these are avoidable deaths. In 1984, an astounding 57.3 percent of all car accidents were drunk driver related. More than half of all car related accidents happened because someone felt the need to drive when they shouldn't have. That's over 25,000 lives that could have been saved, 25,000 families that could have their relatives back, 25,000 parents that could have their sons or daughters back, and for what, because some one thought that their getting somewhere was more important than someone's life. Drunk driving doesn't have a gender or age bias, the categories range in all departments. In 2000, 475 kids under the age of 14 were killed in alcohol related accidents, this figure including the 156 children less than 5 years of age who were killed.
             Drunk driving all starts with an irresponsible driver and a simple disregard for rules and peoples lives. Since 1982, more than one third of a million people were killed in alcohol related crashes. In 1999, an average of one person died from an alcohol related crash every 33 minutes, that is more than 43 a day. Very many people take for gran...