Teenagers in the United States may not seem to drink and drive that much, but the fact is that 40% of all teenage deaths occur in car accidents. Also, 38.9% of those accidents were related to alcohol. However, the statistics state that alcohol related crashes have gone done very much in the past few years. Between 1985 and 1995, the portion of drivers 16-20 year-olds who were involved in fatal accidents where they were intoxicated dropped from 23.9% to

Even though the statistics should be much lower, they are gradually declining rather than increasing. Therefore, there is hope for the youth of America, yet. With so many organizations in place and many new laws that are much stricter on teenage drunk driving, teenagers are starting to think about what they’re doing before they get behind the wheel of a car after a night of partying. Hopefully, the numbers will keep going down.

Although there is no obvious solution to stopping teenage drunk driving for good, police officers are trying to put an end to it. They are enacting stiffer penalties for teenagers arrested for drunk driving. When a teen gets arrested first, their license is suspended for five years or until they are twenty-two, whichever is longer. Another punishment is that teens convicted of drunk driving have to do community service at a hospital where babies that are born addicted to alcohol or illegal drugs reside. The police have also enacted an awareness campaign against drunk driving. This camp

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