Good News! A recent survey says teens are now drinking and driving less. I guess they are finally getting the memo with all the promotion of safe driving in commercials. Glad to know the ads work.
In a recent survey done by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 6.6% of teens from the ages of 16-20 said they drank and drive compared to the 16.2% of teens who said they did in 2002. The numbers have amazingly gone down drastically. In 2013, over 2,000 teens died as a result to drunk driving whether passengers or drivers. 17% of those were the drivers.
Alejandro Azofeifa,lead author of the report and an epidemiologist at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration says,
“It’s a multifactorial approach we are seeing in this particular case.Drive sober or get pulled over”
Young adults from the ages of 21 to 25 also took the survey. The survey showed that 18% of young adults drank and drove last year in comparison to the 38% who did in 2002. Hopefully the numbers will continue to go down as we need to keep drunk drivers off of the road. Especially young teen drivers who are much more unexperienced.
Source: Complex
