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Underage Drinking & Driving It’s Friday night, the first official night of the weekend, and it’s time to party. Of course, the biggest thing at parties is alcohol. Getting wasted is always a plan for having a blast at a party–but once you are ‘wasted’ how do you get home? Do we get in our car and put our life, the people in our vehicle and everyone we see on the way home in danger? Or do we call someone for a ride or remain where we are? Drinking and driving don’t seem dangerous, people do it all the time...but when something goes wrong, was it really worth it? Not long ago, one of my very good friends went to a party. She drank a few beers, got in the car and started to drive home. She distracted herself by trying to change the radio station, lost control of the vehicle and struck a parked car in someone’s front yard. She was arrested for zero tolerance. (Zero tolerance is when you are underage and drink and drive. It doesn’t matter if you have had one beer or a whole case, just the fact that you have the alcohol and it’s illegal). She wasn’t hurt and neither were the other people in the car. However, it scared everyone of them as well as the rest of my friends and I. She could have died, been seriously injured or hurt another person. Because of her actions, she lost her license for 3 months, her insurance sky-rocketed, and she will have zero tolerance on her record for the rest of her life, not to mention that she also has to deal with legal fees and pay for all of her fines.
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