While Halloween can be one of the most exciting holidays of the year, it can also be a source of anxiety to parents. While there is little evidence that crime rates spike on Halloween, it remains to be a time of year when one must take extra precautionary measures to ensure safety. Here are the types of crimes that are commonly committed during this spooky season: Drunk driving. Halloween parties mostly include alcohol, and on Halloween weekends, a good percentage of fatal car crashes and pedestrian fatalities involve.
The time has come: your teenage kid is driving. You hand them the keys and wonder where the time had gone; but before handing out those keys, you must have had your child fulfill all the state’s requirements, perused the laws that surround teenage driving, and lay down ground rules with regards to owning and driving a motor vehicle. Over the past couple of decades, states have been adopting a phased approach to licensing teenage drivers, called Graduated Drivers’ License (GDL) program. California is among the first states.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), drunk driving claims 29 lives in the United States every day. While fatalities due to DUI have fallen by 33% in the last decade, drunk-driving crashes still claim 10,000 lives per year, with deaths and damages contributing to a cost of $44B per year. Alcohol and a Person’s Driving Ability To operate a vehicle properly and safely, you need sound reasoning, thinking, and muscle coordination. Alcohol impairs all these abilities. A legal drink drive limit is determined by your.