Drinkdrivecampaign
- 1. Drink Drive Campaign Drink driving is bad as nearly one in six of all deaths on the road involve drivers who are over the legal alcohol limit. On average 3000 people are killed or seriously injured each year in a drink drive incident and is a big killer across the world. Drinking and driving occurs across a wide range of age groups but particularly among young men aged 17-29 in both casualties and positive breath tests following a collision. The Government's most recent drink drive campaigns aims to target this group. The latest provisional figures from 2004, show that some 590 people were killed in crashes in which a driver was over the legal limit, 2,350 were seriously injured and 14,050 were slightly injured. Half a million breath tests are taken every year by police this means that people who think that they won’t get caught need to think again. Over 100,000 are found to be positive what is 1 in 5 of breath tests. The limit of drinking is 80 milligrams in 100 millilitres of blood. The reason why drink driving is bad is because it has effects on your body.These effects are slower reactions, increased stopping distance, poorer judgement of speed and distance, reduced field of vision. This affects your driving as you have blurry vision making you not be able to see properly and not being able to judge speed or stopping distance what could impact in somebody going into you or you stopping too late causing you to crash into someone else. Alcohol also makes you feel overconfident, this is also another reason why drink driving is bad as you are more likely to take risks, this could mean driving on the other side of the road that makes more crashes with bad judgement and also the risk taking what is bad. Drink driving doesn’t always just occur on the day/ night of the event of drinking, it could also still be in your system the next day even if you feel okay you may still be unfit to drive what could result in you losing your license. The methods people use such as taking a warm shower/steam or drinking coffee doesn’t work it just takes time. There are many fines what could be given to you these are a maximum penalty of 6 months' imprisonment, a fine of up to £5,000 and a minimum 12 months driving ban if you are attempting to drive above the legal limit. An endorsement for a drink-driving offence remains on a driving licence for 11 years, so it is 11 years before a convicted driver will have a "clean" licence again. Being in charge of a vehicle whilst over the legal limit or unfit through drink could result in 3 months' imprisonment plus a fine of up to £2,500 and a driving ban. The penalty for refusing to provide a specimen of breath, blood or urine for analysis is a maximum 6 months' imprisonment, up to £5000 fine and a driving ban of at least 12 months. Causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison, a minimum 2 year driving ban and a requirement to pass an extended driving test before the offender is able to drive legally again. Every 51 minutes in America, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash. That equates to 27 people every day and Someone is injured in a drunk driving incident every 120 seconds. For drivers under 21, the U.S. has a No Tolerance policy that does not allow any alcohol to be in the blood system while behind the wheel. The consequences could include expensive fines, loss of license or jail. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the legal alcohol limit for drivers is, 35 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, 80 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, 107 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine and In Scotland the legal alcohol limit for drivers is lower at, 22 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, 50 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, 67 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine. However it is not possible to say how much alcohol you can drink and stay below the limit. The way alcohol affects you depends on, your weight, age, sex and metabolism
- 2. (the rate your body uses energy), the type and amount of alcohol you’re drinking, what you’ve eaten recently, your stress levels at the time, So overall if you’re driving, it’s better to have none for the road as you wouldn’t want to risk injuring yourself or others and you wouldn't want to get a massive fine, having your license rescinded or being imprisoned. The leading campaign for drink driving t the think campaign and they have posters all over on roads and adverts on the TV to reduce injuries and drink drivers. In the think campaign they have advice what is saying that there is no excuse for drink driving this advice is ‘I can handle my drink. Alcohol affects everybody's driving for the worse. It creates a feeling of overconfidence, makes judging distance and speed more difficult and slows your reactions so it takes longer to stop "I'm only going down the road." A large proportion of all drink drive crashes occur within three miles of the start of the journey. The Think campaign works as it is well known and popular. It also works as it has images to go with all posters and it has posters for everything. This is good as it shows nothing is acceptable for drink driving and it should not be done at all. This campaign also shows that it is not good and you should not do it to the younger personal as they learn the adverts young that drink driving is bad and not to be done what reduces the percentage of injuries and deaths and also drink driving percentage decreases what the campaign's aim is.