I was particularly motivated to write about the cause and effect of driving under the influence of alcohol. Drinking and driving is a very serious issue that the world can do without. Thousands of Americans are either injured or killed each year as a result of ignorant people making simply one life-threatening bad decision. I feel as though alcohol related car crashes are the most preventable crime in the country. If you feel like consuming alcohol, do not drive. When I read in the headlines of the daily newspaper, "Three Killed in Alcohol Related Car Crash", it makes me so angry because I can almost guarantee that the people killed in the crash would still be living today if the driver were merely sober. Reading through the article, I become more and more irritated. An ignorant drunk man decided that he was sober enough to get behind the wheel of his massive sports utility vehicle. The man casually started his vehicle and took off mindlessly down the empty streets, or so he thought. Before the man realized that he should not be driving in the state that he was in, he crashed into a vehicle with three unsuspecting passengers. The man, unscathed, bows his head as he waits for the police to arrive. The same question will keep running over and over through his head for the rest of his life: "Why did I let myself do this? Why?!" Now the man must live with the guilt that he has let down friends and family. My descriptive narration involves an event similar to this one. Explained in my paper will be all of the events leading up to an alcohol related car crash. The narration begins at 11 P.M. and comes to a screeching stand still just before midnight, my curfew. The initial setting of the story is at a high school party where underage drinking is occurring. In an intoxicated state, I tell my friend, Geoff that we better get going because I am going to be late for my curfew, not knowing that he has been drinking as well.