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Party Schools: Drinking & Driving on College Campuses
College is seen by many young people as a time to experience life without parental rules for the first time. Unfortunately, many students also see this as a time to experiment with alcohol, which can lead to some severe and deadly consequences.
September 18, 2011 /Leisure and Recreation PR News/ -- College is seen by many young people as a time to spread their wings and experience life unencumbered by parental rules for the first time. Unfortunately, many college students also see this as a time to experiment with alcohol, which can lead to some unfortunate, if not deadly, consequences.
College life provides fertile ground for young people to test their drinking limits. Numerous college parties provide alcohol to minors -- oftentimes for the first time in their lives. When it is time to go home, many of these students believe that driving drunk for "a few miles" won't hurt.
Boise drunk driver accident lawyers, safety advocates, DUI prosecutors and others who often see the consequences of drunk driving accidents know that a few miles can easily be enough to cause serious DUI accident injuries. This one poor decision can put everyone on the road at risk of injury and death.
College Students and Alcohol
Information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services puts those between the ages of 21 and 25 at the greatest risk for excessive drinking. Further, drug use is most prevalent among those 18 to 20 years old. Combining the two statistics, this means there is a high risk potential for young people to abuse alcohol and drugs on college campuses.
This is reinforced when you look at the statistics regarding college students and alcohol. Of the college students who die from alcohol-related injuries, over 1,800 are between the ages of 18 and 24. This figure includes those who die in alcohol-related car accidents.
In this same age group, over half a million students are injured unintentionally while under the influence of alcohol, and almost 100,000 students each year are sexually assaulted in incidents involving alcohol.
College Drunk Driving Accidents
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism indicates that drunk driving injuries and fatalities on campus are increasing. These negative ramifications are not only experienced by those who participate in the drinking and driving. While over three million college students in the 18- to 24-year-old age range drive under the influence, often they are not the ones injured or killed in the car wrecks they cause.
Colleges and communities need to work together to convince young people to stay off the road when they are under the influence of alcohol. Laws that provide for harsher punishments and college counseling programs that identify students with drinking problems -- as well as anti-drinking-and-driving campaigns, police security at college parties, video surveillance at places that sell alcohol, sobriety checkpoints, and after-hours bus transportation on college campuses -- may help reduce college drunk driving injuries and fatalities.
Holding students responsible for drinking and driving is also vital to preventing drunk driving accidents. When people are injured or killed in college drunk driving accidents, they may bring personal injury claims against the drunk drivers to recover compensation for their injuries, pain and suffering, loss of income and more.
Carty Houst is a personal injury law firm in Boise, Idaho. Our lawyers have seven decades of combined personal injury experience, representing clients who have been involved in many types of injuries. For more information, visit our website at http://www.cartylaw.net/ or call us at 877-293-9300.
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