While studies show that
teen drinking and driving has decreased by 54 percent, there are still about 1
million teens that drank and drove last year. Among teen drivers involved in
fatal accidents in 2010 1 in 5 had alcohol in their system.
Drinking and driving is bad
enough when adults do it, but when a teenager does it is not only a bad decision
but it is illegal as well. It is illegal for anyone to drink and drive
regardless of age but it is against the law for anyone under the age of 21 to
even ingest alcohol.
Teenagers can not handle
alcohol as well as most adults so even drinking it is incredibly risky. Then to
mix that with driving is not only putting yourself in danger but everyone around
you. Alcohol impairs a persons sight and the ability to react to a immediate
situation that requires fast reaction time. To make that worse a teenagers brain
is not full developed so alcohol can have temporary or even permanent affects on
their brain. Thousands of teenagers are injured or killed in car
accidents that involved alcohol.
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