Say No to Drinking and Driving
By: Luis Molina
DWI Information
DWI-Driving While Intoxicated
This is a felony which is a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.
Statistics of Drinking and Driving
- Almost every 90 seconds, a person is injured in a drunk driving crash.
- An average drunk driver has driven drunk 80 times before first arrest.
- On average, one in three people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime.
- 50 to 75 percent of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license.
- Drunk driving costs the United States $132 billion a year.
The Cost of A DWI
10,000 dollars to be bailed out.
30 Ways On How A DWI Affect You
- No more license
- Go to jail
- Waste money on a lawyer
- Waste money on bail bonds
- 6 months of urinary tests
- Ankle monitor
- court
- Avoid embarrassment of crashing.
- loss of job
- loss of house
- death
- being paralyzed
- community service
- DWI classes
- Disfigurement
- Criminal record is started
- ruin marriages
- loss of privileges
- parents will be upset
- Brain damage
- possible deaths to other people
- can get pulled over
- a star on license
- debt
- car taken up
- picked on by the law
- no more friendships
How to Avoid DWi
- Don't drink when out
- Have a designated driver
- Take a cab
- Walk home
- Don't be awake too late at night.