According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), four million adults drove drunk last year. States in the Midwestern part of the country had the highest numbers of drunk drivers. Four out of five drivers were men and 85% involved binge drinkers. Drunk driving is a very dangerous and heinous crime that puts everyone on the road at a high risk for death. Nearly 11,000 people are killed each year in car accidents that involve alcohol impaired drivers. Drunk drivers have a blood alcohol concentration of at least 0.08 %. This would be about four drinks in one hour for a 160-pound man or three drinks over two hours for a 120-pound woman. Binge drinking is defined as consuming five or more drinks for men or four or more drinks for women during a short time period. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are developing possible solutions to drunk driving. Two of the solutions are sobriety checkpoints and ignition interlocks. These to solutions help prevent previous offenders from drinking while driving again. If these two solutions could be put in to action more effectively by authority figures in communities then thousands of lives would be saved as a result.
Driving while alcohol impaired is far too common in society today. Too many innocent people are dying in accidents involving alcohol. I feel that people driving while alcohol impaired should not just go to jail, but also have to get a harder sentence than they usually do. Allowing offenders to come out of jail on probation and do community service may not be enough to get them to understand that driving while drunk is a very serious and can be fatal.
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