Driving while under the influence of alcohol doesoccurs not just occur here in the United States, but it occurs all over the world. As of 2018, South Africa iswas the country with the most accidents caused due toby driving while under the influence. In South Africa alone, 100,000 people die every year due to an accidentaccidents caused by drinking and driving. According to the United States Department of Transportation, “Every day, almost thirty people die in drunk-driving crashes.” As of 2018 in the United States alone, 10,511 people havehad died due to driving while under the influence of any alcoholalcoholic substance. Drinking and driving are dangerous because alcohol is a substance that reduces the function of the brain, thatwhich means the reaction time of someone who is intoxicated is slower than that of someone who is not intoxicated. Arkansas in the thirteenth most dangerous state for accidents caused by drinking and driving. Many of the people who get behind the wheel do not realize how dangerous they are being just by getting behind it. The annual cost for alcohol-related crashes totals more than 44 billion dollars. Many of these crashes have happenedhappened because the driver had takentook drugs while they were drinking alcohol, which is even more dangerous than just drinking and driving. In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving accidents involving impairment from alcohol, and of the 1,233 traffic deaths among children ages zero to fourteen, a total of 214 ( 17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver, whether. Whether it was the other car that had theis them or the driver or it was themof the other car who is intoxicated, it is still a dangerous thing.
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