Some regular drunkards may ask why driving under influence is gambling with more than lives? A look on the facts before finding an answer will not be a bad idea. Facts show that:
- While road accidents continually have been the reason number one of all types of casualties, the underlying cause for road accidents is driving under the influence.
- In spite of harsher penalties, heavy fines and severe punishments, people continue to practice the act of driving under the influence of alcohol or other types of intoxications
- Driver’s Blood Alcohol Content is measured in accident cases due to drunk driving and on an average the Blood Alcohol Content / Concentration in fatally injured drivers driving under the influence is .16.
- 21 to 29 years happens to be the highest aggregated age group to drive under the influence, most of the time.
The anesthetization level of the brain against intoxication is up to 5 drinks. This being as a maximum limit prevents the person from even properly holding a spoon to eat from his plate. Cannot driving after this many rounds of liquor be dealt as gambling with more than lives?
Let’s see the number of people getting affecting because of driving under the influence and understand why it is gambling with more than lives.
While the person driving drunk or intoxicated puts his own life at risk, it does not need common sense to understand that he might be alone every time and might be carrying passengers or others. So driving under the influence means equally risking others’ lives boarding in the same vehicle.
The road will never be a vacant surfing space for the so called expert gentleman driving under the influence and will often be crowded with other vehicles and pedestrians. So driving under the influence once again becomes a gambling with more than lives looking to the life threatening situation he imposes on a large number of people.