Essay On Underage Drinking And Driving

Underage drinking and driving remains an ongoing issue, statistically proven as the leading cause of teen death. Teen drinking and driving is still a problem today. Several teenagers would prefer to take the risk of driving home rather than to just ask a friend for a ride. Underage drinking and driving is proven to be a major cause of economic expenses. Besides underage drinking and driving being the cause of economic expenses, it also is the cause of multiple other consequences. Consequences that can include jail time or can even get as bad as death. Multiple sources argue that due to teen underage drinking and driving, decreasing by 54 percent that it isn’t still an issue today. But a decrease of 54 percent means that there is another 46
“Researchers with Johns Hopkins University's Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth report that underage drinking has costs of $27 billion annually. This includes medical care and criminal justice costs. Underage drinkers who have a car accident are responsible for not only their own vehicles but also for other vehicles involved in the crash, along with other damaged property, such as mailboxes” ( Mokeyane 2). This causes the economy budget to raise and will impact the driver and the parents. The drivers parents are legally forced to pay for any damage the underage driver has caused and aren't able to pay. In particular underage drivers cause more accidents at lower blood alcohol levels due to various of reasons. Many different opinions on whether the blood alcohol level should be decreased or not have been discussed. “The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended that states lower the current blood-alcohol limit of 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent. Fatal accidents involving drivers who have been drinking vary sharply depending on a driver’s age and the time of day” (Fairfield 1). In that case, lowering the alcohol level will also lower the amount of accidents caused by intoxication and