The Scourge of Teens and Drunk Driving

Being a teenager can be fun and exciting. During thisconsidered a cool guy and cool guys during my time
phase, young people start to explore a new anddrank a beer and drove fast cars. I was lucky not to
exciting world that they didn't notice when they wereexperience any accidents because my father was
still under the age of thirteen. Drinking alcohol andsmart enough to prohibit me from driving until I became
driving are among the new activities that teenagersmore responsible.
begin to explore. Unfortunately, these elements oftenMost teenagers these days are into alcohol and own
combine into a dangerous blend of poor judgementa driver's license. I got a big dose of this reality when
and drunk driving.my son was involved in an alcohol related incident.
Teenagers want to be left alone and often resent anyAlthough I was glad that it was not about teens and
authority figure. Doing prohibited and potentiallydrunk driving, I wasn't happy about the other aspects
dangerous activities like driving and drinking are excitingof the incident. My son and some of his friends thought
to them. They will often do anything they want, andthat it would be fun to steal liquor from a clubhouse.
combined with some peer pressure, this often results inFortunately for me and the other parents, they were
teens driving drunk.caught for possession, burglary, and trespassing. After
Are you aware of the statistics on teens and drunkthis punishment doled out from this incident, I know my
driving? If you are a parent like me, you shouldson and his friends will look at alcohol in a different
definitely be familiar with this issue. Teens are alwaysway.
anxious to try alcohol and if you consider that theIf you are concerned about teens and drunk driving
majority of them have poor driving skills, they arebecause you have teenagers of your own, you can
obviously heading for disaster. I can really relate to thisget valuable information from the World-Wide-Web.
situation.Protect your children's future by knowing about the
When I was a teenager, I was also tempted to drinkpossible dangers of teens and drunk driving.
because everybody else was doing it. I wanted to be