Raising+Awareness+through+Personal+Accounts


 * Raising Awareness through Personal Accounts BY KATIE HUTCHISON**

You have probably heard of many sad and horrible stories that involve drinking and driving, so why do people still do it. I have researched this topic and found many sad stories, here are some of the stories i found.

Two people were killed when two girls were picked up by their two drunk friends the car totaled and the driver and one of the passengers were killed. This was the car after the accident

Jason and his brother were in a car and got in a crash while drinking and having fun with friends, Jason survived but his 15 year old brother died. Jason was sent to prison for almost 4 years for vehicle manslaughter. He now travels around the world teaching kids how bad drunk driving really is and sharing his horrific story.

A man was sent to jail, almost killed two of his friends, himself, and all the people in the truck he crashed into, because he was drunk. Is it worth it NO!

A lady was driving when all of a sudden a drunk driver hit her at an intersection; it took the 20 minutes to pull the other car off of her car. In the end the lady walked away with really bad whiplash and horrible back pains and bruises.

A girl was hit by a drunk driver while he left her to die, she has recovered 75% but will have aches and pains in her back and shoulders for the rest of her life. This was her car after the accident.

These are pictures of a girl named Jacqueline Saburido before and after a car with a drunk driver driving hit her and her friends.

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This video is a story of two lovers and when one gets drunk and crashes into the other she is killed.

In 2005 there were 16,885 alcohol related accidents, that comes out to one every 31 seconds

Alcohol related deaths in the US since 1982:
 * || **Total fatalities** |||| **Alcohol related fatalities** ||
 * **Year** || **Number** || **Number** || **Percent** ||
 * 1982 || 43,945 || 26,173 || 60 ||
 * 1983 || 42,589 || 24,635 || 58 ||
 * 1984 || 44,257 || 24,762 || 56 ||
 * 1985 || 43,825 || 23,167 || 53 ||
 * 1986 || 46,087 || 25,017 || 54 ||
 * 1987 || 46,390 || 24,094 || 52 ||
 * 1988 || 47,087 || 23,833 || 51 ||
 * 1989 || 45,582 || 22,424 || 49 ||
 * 1990 || 44,599 || 22,587 || 51 ||
 * 1991 || 41,508 || 20,159 || 49 ||
 * 1992 || 39,250 || 18,290 || 47 ||
 * 1993 || 40,150 || 17,908 || 45 ||
 * 1994 || 40,716 || 17,308 || 43 ||
 * 1995 || 41,817 || 17,732 || 42 ||
 * 1996 || 42,065 || 17,749 || 42 ||
 * 1997 || 42,013 || 16,711 || 40 ||
 * 1998 || 41,501 || 16,673 || 40 ||
 * 1999 || 41,717 || 16,572 || 40 ||
 * 2000 || 41,945 || 17,380 || 41 ||
 * 2001 || 42,196 || 17,400 || 41 ||
 * 2002 || 43,005 || 17,524 || 41 ||
 * 2003 || 42,643 || 17,013 || 40 ||
 * 2004 || 42,518 || 16,919 || 39 ||
 * 2005 || 43,443 || 16,885 || 39 ||
 * 2005 || 43,443 || 16,885 || 39 ||

This chart was from this site http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

__BIBLIOGRAPHY Pictures http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/accident_story/3-11-04-drunk-driving-2.html http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/accident_story/12-22-04.html http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.spellfinder.com/pictures/resultofdriving/girl15.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.spellfinder.com/pictures/resultofdriving/&h=770&w=528&sz=66&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=Js4C_CTo1ZLWSM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djacqueline%2Bdrunk%2Bdriving%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN Information/Stories http://www.itsnotanaccident.com/ http://www.car-accidents.com/2006-Auto-story/7-31-06_drunken_driving.html http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/accident_story/2-26-04.html http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html Video http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zfv6wNb3coE