Let us move towards an alchohol free world
Friday, May 11, 2007
ANGEL
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
FLOWERS
The Effects A Drunk Driving Conviction Can Have On Your Life
If you are old enough to drive, you know about the dangers of drunk driving. If you are old enough to drive AND old enough to drink alcohol, you must be aware of how dangerous it is to drink and drive a car. The consequences can be so incredibly severe. No one wants to hurt themselves or anybody else and the fact is, when you drink, your ability to make good decisions can be impaired. Getting behind the wheel of a car after drinking alcohol is incredibly dangerous and stupid.
Having said that, I also know that it happens. It happens all the time. You can almost be certain that if you are driving home late at night, someone driving on the same road with you has probably had too much to drink. Nobody believes that they will really get stopped. They don’t feel intoxicated, so they assume that they aren’t. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Drunk driving offenses can have far reaching effects on our lives. If you are stopped for drink driving, besides the embarrassing and humiliating arrest process, you will also face many legal challenges as well. You can lose your license. You can lose your job especially if your job involves driving. It can affect your future job prospects. It can have devastating effects on your finances. Not only the fines and costs associated with the offense, but car insurance rates as well.
The best solution of course is to not get behind the wheel of a car if you have consumed any alcohol. Its just that simple. But if you do make that mistake, try to get all the information you can about your states laws and regulations with respect to drunk driving. Find out if there is any way to minimize the effects a conviction will have on the rest of your life. Find out if its possible to have the conviction expunged from your record after a certain amount of time. All 50 states are different and have different rules. Knowledge is the key. Don’t just rely on what the court tells you. Do the research on your own and find out hat you can that may be able to help you minimize a bad situation.
Having said that, I also know that it happens. It happens all the time. You can almost be certain that if you are driving home late at night, someone driving on the same road with you has probably had too much to drink. Nobody believes that they will really get stopped. They don’t feel intoxicated, so they assume that they aren’t. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Drunk driving offenses can have far reaching effects on our lives. If you are stopped for drink driving, besides the embarrassing and humiliating arrest process, you will also face many legal challenges as well. You can lose your license. You can lose your job especially if your job involves driving. It can affect your future job prospects. It can have devastating effects on your finances. Not only the fines and costs associated with the offense, but car insurance rates as well.
The best solution of course is to not get behind the wheel of a car if you have consumed any alcohol. Its just that simple. But if you do make that mistake, try to get all the information you can about your states laws and regulations with respect to drunk driving. Find out if there is any way to minimize the effects a conviction will have on the rest of your life. Find out if its possible to have the conviction expunged from your record after a certain amount of time. All 50 states are different and have different rules. Knowledge is the key. Don’t just rely on what the court tells you. Do the research on your own and find out hat you can that may be able to help you minimize a bad situation.
Labels: alcohol, arrest, conviction, dangerous, driving, drunk, effects, intoxicated, knowledge, minimize, wheel
Monday, March 19, 2007
Tips for Safer Driving at Night
According to the National Institute for Highway Safety, the number and severity of auto accidents increases 10 fold between the hours of 11 pm and 3 am. Here are proven tips to decrease your chances of an accident. Some of this may sound like common sense, but you wouldn't believe how many people don't follow these tips.
1) Stay home. Don't go out unless you have to. Even if you implement every safety tip below, you still run a higher risk of running into someone who isn't following these tips or is driving drunk. Every night there are reports of people killed by a drunk driver that were on there way home - it isn't worth it. If you don't need to go out, don't.
2) Don't drink and drive. You may think you hold your liquor well, and that you won't get arrested or be over the legal limit in your state, but it is a proven fact that any alcohol in your system will slow down or impair your reflexes. What if something happens where you will need to react quickly? Its not worth the risk. Get a designated driver. Everyday there are families torn apart by a drunk driver who thought they could handle driving. Alcohol also impairs judgement and will make you think you can drive when you shouldn't. Don't drive drunk - and don't let others drive drunk. Contact MADD if you have questions on this.
3) Fix, repair, restore your headlights so they work like new. It amazes me when I see people driving at night with very dim headlights. If you can barely see, how safe do you think that is? Your headlights are the number one safety feature for night time driving. If you need new bulbs, get them (they only cost around $10 each). If your lenses are cloudy, scratched, worn get a headlight repair, cleaner, restorer kit (see the authors link below). These kits will return your headlights to like new condition and save you hundreds over replacements. Having worked on a volunteer emergency squad, dim headlights were only second to drunk driving in the number of accidents we dealt with - and they tended to be the most severe. There is no excuse for having dim headlights - get them fixed.
4) Don't drive on bald or worn tires. This is especially true for driving in the rain. Bald or worn tires can cause your car to hydroplane and lose all control almost guaranteeing an accident. Take a penny and make sure you cannot see the presidents head, else replace the tire. Also have them properly balanced and rotated at least once per year. What good are good reflexes if your car won't respond correctly?
5) Replace windshield wipers every spring. When it rains, especially at night your visibility is reduced. Ineffective wipers will further reduce your vision and increase your risk of an accident. Some auto parts stores will even install them for free - take advantage of this.
6) Have your battery checked at every oil change. This will reduce your chances of being left stranded on the road in the middle of the night. More pedestrian accidents happen this way. The other driver is less likely to see you and pedestrian accidents are awful. You will not win with a 3000 pound car going 50 mph. For emergencies pack a flashlight in your car and a reflective vest so you can be seen.
7) Take advantage of driving classes offered by local companies, the DMV and your local police.
8) Wear your seatbelt. Working for an emergency squad, you see the grimm results of victims not wearing their seat belts - being thrown from the car - this resulted in many deaths, paralization, severe burns and disfigurment, etc... I'm sorry if you find it uncomfortable, but if you are in an accident it will increase your chances of survival and decrease the severity of the accident. Wear your seat belt.
Many people think the police are just out to give tickets, but who would want to have to pick up severely injured children or worse. They see this stuff too often and then they have to go home to their families. When I was working at the volunteer emergency squad we found even the toughest cops would cry at some of the accidents we were called to. State Psychologists were sometimes assigned to help the police, emergency medical personnel, etc... as the accidents would be so traggic and they could have been easily prevented by some of the above tips. Please don't drink and drive, wear your seat belt and drive safely.
1) Stay home. Don't go out unless you have to. Even if you implement every safety tip below, you still run a higher risk of running into someone who isn't following these tips or is driving drunk. Every night there are reports of people killed by a drunk driver that were on there way home - it isn't worth it. If you don't need to go out, don't.
2) Don't drink and drive. You may think you hold your liquor well, and that you won't get arrested or be over the legal limit in your state, but it is a proven fact that any alcohol in your system will slow down or impair your reflexes. What if something happens where you will need to react quickly? Its not worth the risk. Get a designated driver. Everyday there are families torn apart by a drunk driver who thought they could handle driving. Alcohol also impairs judgement and will make you think you can drive when you shouldn't. Don't drive drunk - and don't let others drive drunk. Contact MADD if you have questions on this.
3) Fix, repair, restore your headlights so they work like new. It amazes me when I see people driving at night with very dim headlights. If you can barely see, how safe do you think that is? Your headlights are the number one safety feature for night time driving. If you need new bulbs, get them (they only cost around $10 each). If your lenses are cloudy, scratched, worn get a headlight repair, cleaner, restorer kit (see the authors link below). These kits will return your headlights to like new condition and save you hundreds over replacements. Having worked on a volunteer emergency squad, dim headlights were only second to drunk driving in the number of accidents we dealt with - and they tended to be the most severe. There is no excuse for having dim headlights - get them fixed.
4) Don't drive on bald or worn tires. This is especially true for driving in the rain. Bald or worn tires can cause your car to hydroplane and lose all control almost guaranteeing an accident. Take a penny and make sure you cannot see the presidents head, else replace the tire. Also have them properly balanced and rotated at least once per year. What good are good reflexes if your car won't respond correctly?
5) Replace windshield wipers every spring. When it rains, especially at night your visibility is reduced. Ineffective wipers will further reduce your vision and increase your risk of an accident. Some auto parts stores will even install them for free - take advantage of this.
6) Have your battery checked at every oil change. This will reduce your chances of being left stranded on the road in the middle of the night. More pedestrian accidents happen this way. The other driver is less likely to see you and pedestrian accidents are awful. You will not win with a 3000 pound car going 50 mph. For emergencies pack a flashlight in your car and a reflective vest so you can be seen.
7) Take advantage of driving classes offered by local companies, the DMV and your local police.
8) Wear your seatbelt. Working for an emergency squad, you see the grimm results of victims not wearing their seat belts - being thrown from the car - this resulted in many deaths, paralization, severe burns and disfigurment, etc... I'm sorry if you find it uncomfortable, but if you are in an accident it will increase your chances of survival and decrease the severity of the accident. Wear your seat belt.
Many people think the police are just out to give tickets, but who would want to have to pick up severely injured children or worse. They see this stuff too often and then they have to go home to their families. When I was working at the volunteer emergency squad we found even the toughest cops would cry at some of the accidents we were called to. State Psychologists were sometimes assigned to help the police, emergency medical personnel, etc... as the accidents would be so traggic and they could have been easily prevented by some of the above tips. Please don't drink and drive, wear your seat belt and drive safely.
Labels: accidents, driving, drunk, emergency, institute, MADD, national, night, paralization, pedestrian, police, psychologist, safely, safer, seat belt, survival, tips, victims, volunteer
Thursday, March 8, 2007
ANGEL
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Jenny was so HAPPY...
JENNY WAS SO HAPPY
Unknown Author
Jenny was so happy about the house they had found.
For once in her life 'twas on the right side of town.
She unpacked her things with such great ease.
As she watched her new curtains blow in the breeze.
How wonderful it was to have her own room.
School would be starting, she'd have friends over soon.
There'd be sleep-overs, and parties; she was so happy.
It's just the way she wanted her life to be.
On the first day of school, everything went great.
She made new friends and even got a date!
She thought, "I want to be popular and I'm going to be.
Because I just got a date with the star of the team!"
To be known in this school you had to have a clout.
And dating this guy would sure help her out.
There was only one problem stopping her fate.
Her parents had said she was too young to date.
"Well, I just won't tell them the entire truth.
They won't know the difference; what's there to lose?"
Jenny asked to stay with her friends that night.
Her parents frowned but said, "All right".
Excited, she got ready for the big event.
But as she rushed around like she had no sense.
She began to feel guilty about all the lies.
But what's a pizza, a party, and a moonlight ride?
Well the pizza was good, and the party was great.
But the moonlight ride would have to wait.
For Jeff was half drunk by this time.
But he kissed her and said that he was just fine.
Then the room filled with smoke and Jeff took a puff.
Jenny couldn't believe he was smoking that stuff.
Now Jeff was ready to ride to the point.
But only after he'd smoked another joint.
They jumped in the car for the moonlight ride.
Not thinking that he was too drunk to drive.
They finally made it to the point at last.
And Jeff started trying to make a pass.
A pass is not what Jenny wanted at all(and by a pass, I don't mean playing football).
"Perhaps my parents were right....maybe I am too young.
Boy, how could I ever, ever be so dumb".
With all of her might, she pushed Jeff away:
"Please take me home, I don't want to stay".
Jeff cranked up the engine and floored the gas.
In a matter of seconds they were going too fast.
As Jeff drove on in a fit of wild anger,
Jenny knew that her life was in danger.
She begged and pleaded for him to slow down,
But he just got faster as they neared the town.
"Just let me get home! I'll confess that I lied.
I really went out for a moonlight ride".
Then all of a sudden, she saw a big flash".
Oh God, Please help us! We're going to crash!"
She doesn't remember the force of impact.
Just that everything all of a sudden went black.
She felt someone remove her from the twisted rubble,
And heard, "Call an ambulance! These kids are in trouble!"
Voices she heard...a few words at best.
But she knew there were two cars involved in the wreck.
Then wondered to herself if Jeff was all right,
And if the people in the other car were alive.
She awoke in the hospital to faces so sad.
"You've been in a wreck and it looks pretty bad.
"These voices echoed inside her head,
As they gently told her that Jeff was dead.
They said "Jenny, we've done all we can do.
But it looks as if we'll lose you too".
"But the people in the other car!?" Jenny cried.
"We're sorry, Jenny, they also died".
Jenny prayed, "God, forgive me for what I've done
I only wanted to have just one night of fun".
"Tell those people's family, I've made their lives dim,
And wish I could return their families to them".
"Tell Mom and Dad I'm sorry I lied,
And that it's my fault so many have died.
Oh, nurse, won't you please tell them that for me?"
The nurse just stood there ~ she never agreed.
But took Jenny's hand with tears in her eyes
And a few moments later Jenny died.
A man asked the nurse, "Why didn't you do your best
To bid that girl her one last request?"
She looked at the man with eyes oh so sad.
"Because the people in the other car were her mom and dad".
This story is sad and unpleasant but True,
So young people take heed, it could have been you.
Unknown Author
Jenny was so happy about the house they had found.
For once in her life 'twas on the right side of town.
She unpacked her things with such great ease.
As she watched her new curtains blow in the breeze.
How wonderful it was to have her own room.
School would be starting, she'd have friends over soon.
There'd be sleep-overs, and parties; she was so happy.
It's just the way she wanted her life to be.
On the first day of school, everything went great.
She made new friends and even got a date!
She thought, "I want to be popular and I'm going to be.
Because I just got a date with the star of the team!"
To be known in this school you had to have a clout.
And dating this guy would sure help her out.
There was only one problem stopping her fate.
Her parents had said she was too young to date.
"Well, I just won't tell them the entire truth.
They won't know the difference; what's there to lose?"
Jenny asked to stay with her friends that night.
Her parents frowned but said, "All right".
Excited, she got ready for the big event.
But as she rushed around like she had no sense.
She began to feel guilty about all the lies.
But what's a pizza, a party, and a moonlight ride?
Well the pizza was good, and the party was great.
But the moonlight ride would have to wait.
For Jeff was half drunk by this time.
But he kissed her and said that he was just fine.
Then the room filled with smoke and Jeff took a puff.
Jenny couldn't believe he was smoking that stuff.
Now Jeff was ready to ride to the point.
But only after he'd smoked another joint.
They jumped in the car for the moonlight ride.
Not thinking that he was too drunk to drive.
They finally made it to the point at last.
And Jeff started trying to make a pass.
A pass is not what Jenny wanted at all(and by a pass, I don't mean playing football).
"Perhaps my parents were right....maybe I am too young.
Boy, how could I ever, ever be so dumb".
With all of her might, she pushed Jeff away:
"Please take me home, I don't want to stay".
Jeff cranked up the engine and floored the gas.
In a matter of seconds they were going too fast.
As Jeff drove on in a fit of wild anger,
Jenny knew that her life was in danger.
She begged and pleaded for him to slow down,
But he just got faster as they neared the town.
"Just let me get home! I'll confess that I lied.
I really went out for a moonlight ride".
Then all of a sudden, she saw a big flash".
Oh God, Please help us! We're going to crash!"
She doesn't remember the force of impact.
Just that everything all of a sudden went black.
She felt someone remove her from the twisted rubble,
And heard, "Call an ambulance! These kids are in trouble!"
Voices she heard...a few words at best.
But she knew there were two cars involved in the wreck.
Then wondered to herself if Jeff was all right,
And if the people in the other car were alive.
She awoke in the hospital to faces so sad.
"You've been in a wreck and it looks pretty bad.
"These voices echoed inside her head,
As they gently told her that Jeff was dead.
They said "Jenny, we've done all we can do.
But it looks as if we'll lose you too".
"But the people in the other car!?" Jenny cried.
"We're sorry, Jenny, they also died".
Jenny prayed, "God, forgive me for what I've done
I only wanted to have just one night of fun".
"Tell those people's family, I've made their lives dim,
And wish I could return their families to them".
"Tell Mom and Dad I'm sorry I lied,
And that it's my fault so many have died.
Oh, nurse, won't you please tell them that for me?"
The nurse just stood there ~ she never agreed.
But took Jenny's hand with tears in her eyes
And a few moments later Jenny died.
A man asked the nurse, "Why didn't you do your best
To bid that girl her one last request?"
She looked at the man with eyes oh so sad.
"Because the people in the other car were her mom and dad".
This story is sad and unpleasant but True,
So young people take heed, it could have been you.
Labels: ambulance, breeze, confess, dead, died, drive, drunk, event, forgive, gas, great, happy, involved, jenny, moonlight, parties, puff, wonderful, wreck, young
Don't Drink And Drive
Hi Friends,
Welcome to this blog. This is a small attempt in stopping us from "Drink and Drive".
Every second day we get news, some where some accident has taken place due to"Drink and Drive".
Though Government has taken several measures to stop this, there is very less improvement in it.
So friend here is an humble attempt to stop our friends from "Drink and Drive", which is not only effecting them, but also effects the one who unfortunately get involved in it.
I will be updating this blog regularly. Please visit us and always feel free to update us with your views...
With Love,
Your Friend :)
Welcome to this blog. This is a small attempt in stopping us from "Drink and Drive".
Every second day we get news, some where some accident has taken place due to"Drink and Drive".
Though Government has taken several measures to stop this, there is very less improvement in it.
So friend here is an humble attempt to stop our friends from "Drink and Drive", which is not only effecting them, but also effects the one who unfortunately get involved in it.
I will be updating this blog regularly. Please visit us and always feel free to update us with your views...
With Love,
Your Friend :)
Labels: accidents, blog, drink, drive, effects, free, government, improvement, involved, news, regularly, stopping, unfortunately, update, views, visit
