Sentences with phrase «than driving drunk»

Some say that driving while texting is worse than driving drunk.

Ample research has shown that driving while sleep - deprived is as bad or worse than driving drunk.

(btw, posting on blogs drunk is only marginally safer than driving drunk!

Not exact matches

While historically white men and women drink more than their black and Hispanic counterparts, that gap is narrowing — again, primarily driven by white Gen Zers drinking less.

Uber's mission to reduce drunk driving may prove more challenging than the company originally anticipated.

The company's drive - in model allows Sonic to have a broader menu than most fast - food competitors, including 1.3 million drink combinations.

If augmented reality games continue to grow in popularity as a category, there may be more pressure than ever for governments to step in and do something about the dumbest behavior this side of drinking and driving.

The millionaires in the book drive cheap, old cars, drink Bud rather than champagne, and pay off their mortgages early.

In 2014, 9,967 people were killed because of drunk driving, and more than 1.1 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Worse, tweeting while driving slows your reaction time by 38 %, which is more than drinking or smoking pot.

Can you imagine being in a group that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 can not get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug - related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Accidents and tragedy will be a part of modern society regardless... we see it far more often on the highway than we do in the home from accidental shooting and I am not talking about the criminal activity of drinking and driving.

How far he can move in these directions, as in exploiting others to one's own gain, driving a shrewd deal or pursuing an advantage, stretching the truth, «having a little affair,» or drinking in moderation, depends for most persons less on the will of God or the revelation of God in Jesus Christ than on what is and what is not done in one's community.

The 18 to 35 age group is drinking more wine than Baby Boomers and that's driving new brands from Treasury Wine.

More than 100 industry professionals from all different sections of the food and drinks sector gathered recently in central London to hear how leading companies are driving sustainability down their supply chains.

Whether beating up a woman is worse than cheating on taxes or drunk driving is an odd line of thinking to comment on as the degree of all three could vary materially but if we are talking about cheating a few thousand dollars on your taxes vs beating up a woman then to me that is laughable.

His comments came little more than a fortnight after chairman Jeremy Peace went on record to praise the 14 - goal striker for his resurgence, after a difficult period when he lost form and was convicted of drink driving.

Alcohol was not forbidden fruit for me as a teen, although drinking and driving was, and I think as a result I approached it better than many of my peers (who would jump in the car and race home from a party to make curfew, whereas I was encouraged to call home and say that I needed to sober up before driving).

Cut the risk of dying in childbirth in half and double the risk of drunk driving and it's still more than a factor of 10.

If you count the fetus as «others» then childbirth is far, far riskier to others than drunk driving.

The ABSOLUTE risk that she gets in an accident (including single car accidents where no one else is involved) if she drives drunk is about 20 times less than her baby dying in childbirth.

Of course, as soon as I point out that this argument also justifies drunk driving (even moreso, since it is a lot safer, on an absolute basis, than childbirth), they are long gone.

Non-drunken driving is even safer than drunk driving, but occurs even more often.

Giving birth in a hospital is much more dangerous than driving, even driving drunk.

A better analogy would be if people said «if a 14 yr old drunk girl accidentally gets behind the wheel and crashes than no females should drive.»

Remember, drunk driving is much, much safer than childbirth (per event).

Bob — the absolute risk of drunk driving is much, much less than that of home birth (if you look at a single event, as opposed to annual or lifetime stats; the problem with drunk driving is not the risk, it is the prevalence).

That means that for every 1000 people who drink and drive, more than 999 will make it to their destination safe and sound, without and accident, and 998.4 will make it without so much as a DUI.

Skydiving, scuba diving, drunk driving, all things that are considered to be risky are much safer than childbirth.

The AA claim that the majority of people killed in drink - drive crashes are drastically over the limit rather than being in and around the legal level.

The governor, speaking at the New Baltimore rest stop on the Thruway just south of Albany, says statistics show distracted driving has now become more deadly than drunk driving.

All of this combines to suggests that a drunk is absurdly more likely to choose to drive under the influence than someone who is high.

For teen drivers, texting while driving creates more fatal accidents than drinking while driving, believe it or not.

It probably shouldn't have taken such a tragic, high - profile incident to show Fossella that drunk driving is wrong, but this is the same guy who had a secret second family in Virginia, so it's better late than never, we guess.

«Cracking down on drunk and impaired driving is more than vigilance on our roadways — it requires resources and technology to process the evidence and hold accountable those who get behind the wheel while under the influence,» Cuomo said in a statement.»

Albany County has approved a new zero - tolerance policy for those who caught driving drunk more than once.

Cuomo says today, there are five times the number of accidents caused by distracted driving than drunk driving.

A Brooklyn judge has been censured by the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct more than three years after he was arrested for driving drunk near Albany and then trying to...

Drivers less than 21 years old who engaged in drinking while driving would also benefit substantially, with 194,886 deaths and injuries potentially prevented.

Teens are five times likelier to be in a car accident when in a group than when driving alone, and likelier to commit a crime or drink alcohol when with a group of peers.

Binge drinking, defined as having four or more drinks on an occasion for women, or five or more drinks on an occasion for men, can produce blood alcohol levels greater than 0.08 percent, which is the legal limit for driving in the United States.

Alcohol is more affordable than ever, a factor researchers say has contributed to Americans» widespread drinking and driving.

At particular risk were kids who used alcohol and marijuana at the same time: They were about 50 to 90 percent more likely to admit to unsafe driving than their peers who did not drink or smoke pot.

«Substance - related problems such as binge drinking, driving under the influence of alcohol, and risky sexual behavior are more important than others due to their association with reckless driving, automobile accidents, physical injuries and even death, as well as risk for sexually transmitted disease and unplanned pregnancy.»

The researchers noted, however, that those who drank a caffeinated beverage to stay awake performed their driving tasks much better than those who listened to music or those in the control group.

«Even more than drinking and driving — which thanks to strong messaging is at an all - time low — distracted driving is a huge problem for teens,» says McCormack.

While Uber, which is available in 274 cities in North America, reports that more than two billion rides have been arranged globally through the smartphone application since it started in 2010, and alleges that its services reduce drunk driving, independent studies are mixed on how ride - hailing influences crash numbers.

«When two people drive drunk, but one hits and kills a child, he is punished more severely than the man who didn't hurt anyone, although they committed the same offense of drunk driving − it's just that one got lucky.

This study shows for the first time that there is a causal effect of mixing alcohol and energy drinks on perceived intoxication and real behaviors driven by the expectation that energy drinks boost the effects of alcohol, rather than the contents of the cocktails.

While progress has been made in recent decades, more than 10,000 drunk driving deaths still occur each year in the United States.