Drink & Drive Disasters...Teens Can't Hold Their Liquor
Fortunately, the rate of motor vehicle accidents among teens 16 - 19 has declined since the early 1980s. Alcohol involvement in automobile crashes is highest among adults 21-40 years old.
However, dig deeper into the numbers. What's going on is not as encouraging as it may seem. Matter-of-fact, sobering reasons to be concern about teen drivers exist.
Teens do not "hold" their liquor well. In other words, when teens drink alcohol and drive, the results are disastrous. And it doesn't take much. More teens died at low and mid-range Blood Alcohol Count levels than older drivers.
Many states consider a driver legally intoxicated when Blood Alcohol Count levels reach either .08 percent or .10 percent. Teens with Blood Alcohol Count levels much lower are involved in fatal automobile crashes more than older drivers. Scariest are teenagers who drive when their Blood Alcohol Count is .10%. If you want to learn how to detect when your teenager starts driving the automobile in a manner you consider unsafe.
Based on the number of fatal teen crashes involving legally intoxicated teen drivers, the combination of alcohol drinking and teens driving is a tragedy waiting to happen. Over 1/3 of all fatal auto accidents were males with Blood Alcohol Counts at legal intoxication levels or higher. Another 16% were females.
Effectively helping to keep teen death and accident rates from rising further are minimum age drinking laws. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have minimum age drinking laws enforced.
One way to help teen drivers drive safely is to be able to detect when your teen is driving in a way you do not approve. To learn more and know how to detect when a teen driver is not operating the automobile.
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More Teen Driver Fatality Statistics To Know...
- 14% of all deaths due to motor vehicle accidents are teen drivers.
- Most teen driver deaths due to motor vehicle accidents occur on weekends 53% of the time.
- Teen drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents had a youth passenger in automobile 45% of the time. More facts below.
Do you know:
* Of teen drivers fatally injured in automobiles, more than 1/3 were speed related accidents.
* Teen lifestyle of staying up late make teen drivers a high risk to have an automobile accident due to drowsiness.
* More than any age group, teens are likely to be involved in a single vehicle crash.
Graduated Driver License (GDL) programs permit young drivers to safely gain driving experience before obtaining full driving privileges.
GDL programs are targeted at teen drivers 17 years old and under.
Statistics you should know...
- 14% of all deaths due to motor vehicle accidents are a teen driver.
- Most teen driver deaths due to motor vehicle accidents occur on weekends 53% of the time.
- Teen drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents had a youth passenger in automobile 45% of the time. More facts below.
Teen driving is an important hurdle your teenager needs to safely step over. Dealing with the growing pains of your teen driver's adolescence is a hurdle you have to wisely handle. How do you manage both without going crazy?
You want your teen driver to "Drive Home Safe" every time out on his or her own. Of course you do, name a parent who doesn't.
The other two-thirds of victims are passengers, drivers and occupants of other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
For the last 15 years or so, experts urged parents to create for themselves and their teenage drivers, teen driver contracts.
They are agreements between parents and teen driver that explain what to expect when the automobile is driven responsibly and unfortunately, which occurs too often, when the automobile is driven by the teen driver irresponsibly.
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