Pros And Cons Of Drunk Driving Accident

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Xitclalli Vásquez, Sean Carter, Jacqueline Saburido, and Aaron Pennywell, are just four of the thousands who have been involved in a drunk driving accident here in Texas. Out of the four, Aaron Pennywell was the only one to die at the scene of the crash. Now just because Saburido, Carter and Vásquez didn’t die in their accidents does not mean that they did not suffer. Vásquez landed in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the breast down just three days before her birthday. Carter, who had been drinking and decided not to drive instead had a friend drive who had also been drinking, suffered brain injuries that left him unharmed mentally but physically no longer able to talk or walk, as a matter of fact a computer speaks for him and he even refers to …show more content…

Many establishments should stop people at the door and when a group of people arrive to a bar you must provide proof of a designated driver to get in. Once you do the designated driver will be given a wristband which lets the bartenders know that this person is not to be served alcohol. Actually a proposed bill in Louisiana is fighting to “make it illegal for establishments to serve alcohol to customers without a designated driver” (Potter). This would decrease the number of drunk drivers making the roadways safer for everyone. Many people who arrive to a bar with friends usually don’t think about having a designated driver. But making it mandatory would cause many bar goers to take having a designated driver more serious. Many may try to argue that making people have a designated driver mandatory is taking it a little too but this is not just to protect everyone one else but the person who is intoxicated as well. If this is what helps eliminate a huge number of drunk drivers from entering the road than this solution will be acted

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