UNDERAGE DRINKING FACTS
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Facts About Teens
and Drunk Driving
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In one year, 31% of teens who died in a
traffic accident were legally intoxicated.
Teenage drinking takes the lives of eight
adolescents every day. Forty percent of
alcohol-related traffic fatalities involve
teen drinkers. These are scary facts. Teens
and drunk driving go together as a sort of
rite of passage. The following will take a
closer look at teen drinking and driving to
find out what brings a teenager to engage
in such behavior and how to stop it from
happening.
01/08/2013 -- Here are a few more disturbing facts about teens and drunk driving.
A boy will drink his first alcoholic beverage
at age 11, a girl, at age 13. Over 11,000
teens try alcohol for the first time every
day. Three million teens are alcoholics.
That’s outrageous! Three million teens are
already alcoholics! Adolescents are three
times as likely to become involved in a
single-vehicle accident while intoxicated
than adults who drive under the influence
of alcohol. The reasons for this may be that
teens have less driving experience overall,
and they may overestimate their driving
abilities. Teens who start drinking before
age 15 are 4 times more likely to become
alcohol dependent than their counterparts
who did not start to drink alcohol until they
were of legal age. So how does a community stop this behavior?
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| Iowa Fall/Winter 2013-2014 | abusemagazine.org
Source: www.sbwire.com/press-releases/teen-drunk-drivingstatistics-facts-about-teens-and-drunk-driving-193046.htm