What Percent of Teens Get Into Accidents in Everystate?

Question by Kiyannia: what percent of teens get into accidents in everystate?
donin a project 4 drivers ed because im taking it online.

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Answer by Edug
100%

THE TEENAGERS ARE DYING LIKE FLIES!!!!

Only joking.

I’m not sure. It’s probably around 5-10%. But I’m just guessing.

Answer by Bill P
Of the 43,443 people killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2005, 39 percent, or 16,885, were attributed to alcohol.

In 2005, an estimated 233,000 people were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present.

Three-fourths (75%) of drivers in fatal crashes who had alcohol present in their system had blood alcohol content (BAC) levels of 0.10 or 0.11, greater than the legal limit in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Twenty-five percent of these drivers had BAC levels of 0.21, which is more than twice the legal limit in all states.

The 16,885 fatalities in alcohol-related crashes during 2005 represent an average of one alcohol-related fatality every 31 minutes.

In 2004, 21 percent of the children under age 15 killed in crashes were killed in alcohol-related crashes.

In 2002 and 2003, 16.6 percent of adult drivers age 21 or older (an estimated 30.7 million people) reported that they had driven while under the influence of alcohol or illicit drugs during the past year.

In 2002 and 2003, 21 percent of people ages 16 to 20 reported that they had driven in the past year while under the influence of alcohol or illicit drugs.

Among the estimated 4.2 million people ages 16 to 20 in 2002 and 2003 who reported driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or illicit drugs in the past year, approximately four percent (169,000 people) indicated that they had been arrested and booked for DUI.

Between 1994 and 2003, the number of juvenile arrests for driving under the influence increased 33 percent, and adult arrests decreased six percent. The increase in the number of arrests was far greater for female juveniles (83 percent) than male juveniles (25 percent).

A boat operator with a BAC level above 0.10 percent is estimated to be more than 10 times as likely to die in a boating accident than an operator with a BAC of zero.

From 1998-2003, about 45 percent of all fatalities during the Christmas and New Year holidays occurred in crashes where at least one of the drivers was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, as compared to about 30 percent of all fatalities during the rest of December.

During the 30 days preceding a recent survey, 30.2 percent of ninth- through 12th-grade students interviewed nationwide said they had ridden in a vehicle with a driver who had been drinking alcohol, and 12.1 percent of the students reported having driven a vehicle one or more times after drinking alcohol.

Alcohol-related crashes cost the American public more than $ 50 billion in 2000.

A study of repeat impaired-driving offenders found that the majority of respondents (54 percent) were alcohol-dependent. In addition, many of the respondents had at least one lifetime disorder in addition to alcohol abuse or dependence. Among those, the most prevalent was major depressive or dysthymic disorder (31 percent), followed by posttraumatic stress disorder (15 percent).