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Some Sobering Facts about Teenage Driving.
FACT: Alcohol is responsible for more than 42% of teen motor vehicle deaths.
FACT: The average college student spends more money on alcohol than for books.
FACT: Of the students enrolled in college, 240,000 to 360,000 will eventually lose their
lives to alcohol related causes.
FACT: Every weekday night from 10 pm to 1 am, one in 13 drivers are drunk.
FACT: The most dangerous period of time during the week to be on the road is from
11pm Friday to 6am Sunday.
FACT: It is estimated that one out of every 280 babies born today will die in a crash with
an intoxicated driver.
FACT: Coffee cannot rid your system of alcohol. It just makes you a nervous, wide
-awake drunk. Only time can reverse impairment.
FACT: Men are more likely than women to be driving at the time of a fatal crash.
FACT: In 2002, an estimated 17,419 people died in alcohol-related traffic crashes –
an average of one every 30 minutes. These deaths constitute 41% of the
42,815 total traffic fatalities.
FACT: It took the Vietnam War 13 years to kill 50,000 American soldiers, nearly that
many Americans die each year on our roadways.
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