How to Teach Someone the Dangers of Drunk Driving

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Identify your target audience.

   Decide who you want to teach about the dangers of drunk driving and choose an appropriate venue.
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   Step 2: Tailor your lessons to your audience.

   Certain ages and types of people will learn in different ways. , The statistics on alcohol-related road traffic collision can be shocking and should help to get your message across.There are many resources to do this with, including many scientific journals , One method suitable for educating groups of high school students is to ask them to look at the people sitting next to them.
   
   Each member of the group should then be asked what they think will be the cause of death for those they just looked at.
   
   Chances are, in a group of 15-19 year old boys, the most likely thing to kill them will be the person sitting in the middle, especially if they drink and drive. , A conviction for drunk driving could lose a person their job.
   
   A family who loses someone to drunk driving will feel the impact of the incident for the rest of their lives. , Hundreds of young girls are killed and injured by their boyfriends' bad, or drunk, driving.
   
   Boys show off to girls.
   
   Educate girls they have a right to refuse to get into a car with a boy that they think won't or can't drive safely. , There is NEVER any excuse for driving under the influence. , These preventable incidents are a waste of professional resources whose time could be better spent saving lives or preventing serious crime. ,,, These should be available through your fire department, council or appropriate government organization. ,
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   Step 3: Research statistics.

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   Step 4: Use shock tactics if appropriate.

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   Step 5: Explain the long term and far reaching effects of drink driving.

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   Step 6: Target young females in particular.

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   Step 7: Make your audience understand that just because they have gotten away with drunk driving in the past

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   Step 8: doesn't mean they will continue to get away with it.

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   Step 9: Teach your audience that even a minor fender bender caused by drunk driving will need to be attended by the emergency services.

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    Step 10: Educate your audience about the legal penalties for drunk driving.

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    Step 11: Be a good role model by not getting behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol.

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    Step 12: Use resources such as videos

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    Step 13: posters and leaflets.

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    Step 14: Employ the catch phrase Better late than never—It's better to be sober and arrive later than to be drunk and never get there at all.

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