Proposed Repercussions for Driving Under the Influence

A few years ago my grandmother was on her way home from her cabin late in the afternoon. A drunk driver failed to stay in his lane on the road and hit her car head on. The intoxicated driver fled on foot but was found hiding in a corn field by a police officer shortly after the accident. After spending several days in the hospital and several months recovering, my grandmother later found out that this driver fled the scene of the accident because he did not have a valid driver’s license. It had been revoked previously due to a DUI offense; however, this was not his first offense. He had fifteen previous DUI’s. He did not have his license taken away until his sixth alcohol related offense. This chronic offender continued to drive anyway. How many years need to go by and how many deaths have to happen before we as a society decide enough is enough? Laws and stricter consequences should be put into effect to permanently revoke a license after one DUI offense to keep the public out of harm’s way.

Intoxicated drivers are a menace and they are detrimental to society. Drunken driving goes back in history before cars were even invented. Hundreds of years ago citizens would frequent liquor establishments and they did not have second thoughts about getting on their horses to ride home. Every day there are drunk drivers, that have been and looks as if always will be, a danger to all people on the streets. When someone chooses to drive after drinking there is no regard for anyone else other than themselves. Although some may think that a permanent revocation of a driver’s license would be a resolution for the drunken driving dilemma, statistics show that it is essentially not the case.

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...aching and can become a dilemma for society. When an accident leaves a person debilitated they may need to rely on public assistance for daily necessities and to manage financially. The act of driving drunk can and often does has a wide range of financial effects on our cities, states and nation as a whole. To request the support of an elected official in alleviating the burden of drunk drivers by passing mandatory DUI revocation laws could certainly be thought of as a Political Suicide for the official.

We are a country of second chances. If a potential law doesn’t adversely affect politicians or voters personally, they are less likely to support the cause. History has proven that it is an unpopular decision for a politician to support laws that would allow permanent revocation of a driver’s license even though it would mean a much safer place for us to live.