As I woke up and got out of my soft bed, I went straight down the brown, wooden steps to make coffee. My long blonde hair with brown highlights was a mess and all over the place. I got to the coffee machine to make my coffee and ran upstairs to get dressed and go to work. I worked at a hospital as a critical care medicine specialist who helped people with injuries that are life-threatening. As I got in the car and turned on the radio, I heard something terrible. “This morning a drunk driver had crashed on the highway and has caused a major traffic delay,” said the radio person in a serious way. I had heard what had happened and rushed to the hospital to see if anyone from the accident was there …show more content…
Crazy drunk driver hits 47 people on Lone Road. Cops of Bower County still have not found driver. Driver has weapon in car and brown hair .” Then I had heard another tv go off, 14 people dead, 22 people injured and 11 people with minor scars. I knew that everyone from the accident had been worried about the drunk driver and waiting and watching to see if he was going to strike again. It had been a week since a drunk driver had hit 47 people. People had funerals and church blessings over their families. Bower police still haven't found the drunk driver. We had cured all patients and the hospital was now almost empty. I was just walking over to Sierra when we both had heard a boom like sound come from the first floor of the hospital. Gunshots had fired rapidly by the drunk driver and his three friends. We all heard someone say “Everybody on the ground and don’t move”. I made sure the gunmen didn’t see me. I took a look up and I noticed they had fired eight shots on each floor and one of them had gotten John in the lower back. He laid there blood spewing everywhere. Dr Thowson, another doctor that had worked on the same floor as me, had gotten shot and had been laying on a IV machine dead. The hospital looked like a gory mess. I wondered if the hospital would ever be the same
Officer Stamets and Pastucka assisted Officer Hand from the Frackville Boro. Police with a reckless driving complaint. An individual reported a white Ford sedan travelling northbound on State Route 61 towards the borough of Frackville. The caller reported that the vehicle was travelling all over the roadway. Officer Hand advised he observed a white Ford sedan while he was stationary near Anthony's Pizza and Sub's. The vehicle came to an absurd halt when the female operator observed the police car, stopping in the middle of the travel lane of State Route 61. Afterwards the operator accelerated and continued northbound on State Route 61. While travelling on State Route 61 Officer Hand observed the operator's vehicle swaying in the roadway nearly crossing the double yellow lines and then aggresively swayed right travelling against the
Paramedics pressing with all their strength on a lifeless chest while pumping air into the patient’s lungs for any chance of a heartbeat. As they were pushing the patient into room 103 they threw me a demographic sheet. It took me a second to come back to reality after seeing the limp, bluish-white, body of a young boy. In that moment I was frozen with heartache and disbelief but I knew I had a job to get done. I ran back out to my desk, unlocked my computer, and got the boys’ information into the system.
SQUEEEKK! The police car skidded across the side of the road, leaving a swiveling trail of black marks in its tracks. “Stop right where you are!” A deep officer’s voice shouted out the car window. Melanie and Henry’s faces turned red as a tomato.
According to Levinthal (2011), alcohol is called the hidden drug because an alcoholic does not need to find a drug dealer on the street; instead it is legally available and has no criminal sanctions attached to its use; alcoholism is therefore easily hidden from friends and family. Unfortunately, drunk driving is the leading cause of deaths on roadways, and in addition causes hundreds of boating accidents as well. Fortunately, with the legal drinking age set at twenty one and the reduction in the BAC level of intoxication set to 0.08, there have been positive results in minimizing alcohol related deaths annually.
There is knocking at a door late at night, and there a policeman standing at the door with information that a family member was in an accident that involved a drunk driver. This is one of those things people hear and believe that it will not happen, but it happens every day. Every 40 minutes, someone in the U.S. is killed by a drunk driver and in 2008, in Montana, 40 percent of all traffic fatalities involved DUIs (“Drunk Driving” 1). Drunk Driving affects everyone and people in Montana should look at what other states do to find ways to make the laws tougher and more enforced.
In 2010, the lives of a Macon family changed forever. A time of family togetherness that started out as a celebration turned out to be anything but, proving that a split-second action can have lasting consequences. The family had gathered in Longview, Texas to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Jerry Dingmore’s mother. As everyone prepared to head back from the party, Dingmore’s son, Colton, requested that he ride with his uncle Jay. Dingmore agreed, and everyone started to drive back to Jerry’s mother’s house-Jerry in one car and Colton, Jay, and Jay’s wife Betty in another. Out on the highway, Jay and Betty’s car was hit by a distracted driver who answered a text behind the wheel and swerved into their lane of traffic. Betty and Colton survived with minimal injuries, but Jay was killed on impact. Now, the Dingmores are trying to spread awareness on an issue that has affected many people and can be prevented simply by using common sense.
...well aware of the laws and consequences against drunk driving, especially after destroying families due to their carelessness decision. Victims’ families entire life’s are annihilated because of the sudden death of their loved one, and they are never going to be able to reclaim their normal life, while the offender after a few days in prison reclaims his normal life. As a result of the fragile criminal justice system everyday road users share the road with repeat offenders who are highly resistant to change their manner of conducting oneself despite their previous authorization..When an accident happens, fatalities that occur suddenly can be more difficult to deal with than anticipated death because members of the family are not well prepared. Sudden losses are even more difficult to process when a person is killed violently knowing that it could have been prevented.
Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving had her life greatly affected due to other people driving while intoxicated. It started when her daughter Serena was 18 months old and Candy’s car was hit from the rear by a drunken driver causing slight injury to Serena. Only six years later her son Travis was run over and very seriously injured yet again by a driver under the influence and over the legal limit. Later on Lightner's 13-year-old daughter Cari was walking to a church carnival when she was struck from behind by a drunken driver who briefly passed out. Cari was hit and thrown over 125 feet and left on the side of the road dead. To add insult to the tragedy, the driver of the vehicle had been charged with several previous counts of impaired driving, had been convicted 3 times, and was just released on bail two days earlier. That may just sound like a surplus of bad luck for this one family, but drunk driver related fatalities are much more common than some people may realize. The National Transportation Safety Board reports at least 10,000 fatalities each year due to drunken driving (Wald). The problems associated with drunk driving include; repeat offenders and alcohol related fatalities, however, we could all help to solve this problem by getting involved, enforcing strict laws and punishments, and utilizing new technology.
Over the last several years the dangers of driving while intoxicated have increased and have become a serious threat to this nation. Although, men are considered the main perpetrators of DUIs recently women, young adults, and even teenagers have been pulled over and arrested for being intoxicated while operating a vehicle. Many groups and organizations have been formed in an attempt to keep drunk drivers off the roads. Laws have been passed and are constantly changing in an attempt to cut down the number of DUIs and deaths. With new technology in production and automakers adding more safety features to their cars the war against drunken driving is still going on. Therefore, as a result of the increase due to drinking and driving, it is essential that tougher laws are enacted.
The doctor left the trauma room, leaving us to pick the bits of tissue from the hair that remained on the man's head. The two of us remaining gathered around his head and proceeded to snag the soft gobs of pink flesh from his hair as gently as possible, so as not to disturb our newly finished work. He was taken to another room to recover as we left the scene of the previous mayhem. Staff congratulated me on a job well done, as this was my first trauma. I felt proud and alive, I knew this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I will never forget that moment realization hit home.
As you can see, auto accidents are happening at an alarming rate in this country, and because of these the lives of innocent people and their families are adversely affected. When a loved one in family is unexpectedly killed by a drunk driver, families are devastated and destroyed. They are affected not only physically and mentally but they are also financially strained.
Do you know how many people die annually from drunken driving related accidents in the United States? The statistics are probably far beyond your imagination. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), another 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes and in every day 2012, 10,322 people died in drunk driving crashes one every 51 minutes (nhtsa.dot.gov). In Massachusetts, especially, Dorchester has a community problem of drunk driving. Dorchester is the spot where car accidents from drunk driving occur with very high frequency. For instance, BOSTONGLOBE reported that drunk driver hit and killed a 7-year-old girl was walking with her mother on the sidewalk in front of 43 Olney Street in Dorchester around 2:15 p.m. At last drunk driver charged that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in state prison (BOSTONGLOBE.com). As in this fatal accident, drunk driving is a terribly dangerous behavior that threatens the lives of both the driver and others. The government should bring in stricter laws to deter drunken drivers. The government also should enforce inspection of driving under the influence of alcohol more strictly. This could be achieved through random roadblocks with quick blow tests. In addition, government should promote activation on project designated driver business.
Andrew lived a normal life, he played xbox with his friends every night, on weekends he went to the skate park with a different set of friends. He thought they were pretty good kids and that they wouldn’t do anything to put him in any harm, he trusted them. Then one day his friends came to pick him up and he had a bad feeling about it but he got in the car anyways, while they were driving they kept swerving to the side but every time he asked to drive instead of one of his friends but they wouldn’t let him. He was feeling very unsafe since they were on a busy street in the afternoon with busses full of kids around and parents picking kids up from school. They were approaching a stop light and he asked how much they had drank but
As I was driving down the road I saw red, and blue lights going off behind me, so I turn on my turn single and turned to the side of the street and parked my car. I saw the police officer getting out of his car and started to walks towards me, my hands were getting all sweaty and clammy, my stomach was in complete knots and I couldn’t figure out if I was going to vomit, or just pass out. I heard a knock on my window, and I rolled it down.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates, “More than 10,000 young people in the United States are killed and 40,000 are injured in auto accidents when alcohol is involved” (“Understanding The Effects Of Alcohol: Drunk Driving”). Unfortunately, Jack was one of those individuals. Newly twenty-one, Jack was thrilled by the privilege to finally be able to drink legally. It was two o’clock in the morning, and the air was cold and dry. After a long evening of playing pool and enjoying drinks, Jack was now headed to his cozy home where his girlfriend was awaiting his arrival. The road was covered in a slight layer of pure white snow, as the December flurries began to set in. Jack knew there was snow on the road, so he drove along at a safe and careful speed. What he did not realize was that he slowly was gaining speed. As the alcohol began to catch up with Jack’s body, tiredness overcame him and he gradually dozed off. The next think he knew, he was lying in a hospital bed with his girlfriend apprehensively watching him. Once he regained consciousness, he was informed of his accident. He had skidded into the adjacent ditch, because of the slippery roads, and crashed into a tree line. His car looked like a piece of crumpled up wrapping paper on Christmas morning. Doctors said it was miraculous that he was even alive, but Jack was astonished to find out that he would never walk again. Although it may not seem like it to him or his family, Jack was very lucky to have had the accident he did. By making the decision to drive drunk, he could have risked an innocent individual’s