Alcohol Awareness
... reports about DWI’s and alcohol related accidents and deaths among teens, but never did I consider my actual association in the matter. It was my partial involvement of a double fatality car crash that cleared my almost blind perspective of the deathly combination of automobiles and alcohol. ... Although incidents of this nature are always unexpected, I have developed an amplified awareness of avoiding a drinking and driving situation. ... Does that mean that young drinkers must be endure alcohol-related accidents in order to realize the consequences of uniting alcohol and automobiles? ... The medium in which alcohol awareness is being spread seems to have little or no effect on alcohol consumers. ... On the contrary, the National Commission Against Drunk Driving reports that the preliminary statistics for traffic fatalities in 2001 show that the rate of highway deaths due to alcohol-related causes is virtually unchanged from the year 2000. ... The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stated that last year, an estimated 17,419 people were killed in accidents linked to alcohol. ... Thus, communities’ uproar toward prevention of drunk driving should be loud enough for the government to take notice of the need for effective alcohol awareness.