Drivers and passengers can: Use a seat belt in every seat, on every trip, no matter how short. Make sure children are always properly buckled in the back seat in a car seat, booster seat, or seat belt, whichever is appropriate for their age, height, and weight.
Choose not to drive while impaired by alcohol or drugs, and help others do the same. Obey speed limits. Drive without distractions such as using a cell phone or texting. Motor vehicle crash deaths in the US are still too high. Major risk factors for crash deaths in the US. Not using seat belts, car seats, and booster seats contributed to over 9, crash deaths. Drunk driving contributed to more than 10, crash deaths.
Speeding contributed to more than 9, crash deaths. Seat belts saved over 12, lives in the US in , yet: The US had lower-than-average front and back seat belt use compared with other high-income countries.
Some proven measures of best performing high-income countries. Some of the best performing countries: Have policies in line with best practices, including those that address: Primary enforcement of seat belt laws that cover everyone in every seat. Police officers can stop a vehicle and write a ticket for anyone not buckled up. Requirements for car seats and booster seats for child passengers through at least age 8.
Use advanced engineering and technology, such as: Ignition interlocks for all people convicted of drunk driving. This device keeps the vehicle from starting unless the driver has a BAC below a pre-set low limit.
Automated enforcement, for example, speed and red light cameras. The effect of drinking on decision making is even more pronounced among youths since they often lack the alcohol tolerance of an adult. Additionally, the prefrontal cortex of the brain typically reaches maturation in our early to mids, meaning teens have yet to develop mature decision-making capabilities even before drinking.
The current teenage distracted driving statistics prove that teens are already predisposed to engaging in dangerous habits via common driving distractions ; mix this with alcohol consumption, and you have a cocktail for engaging in risky behaviors like drunk driving. It is true that the disapproval rating for drunk driving remains high amongst the younger populations.
However, normalization of risky drinking behavior by family members appears to play a pivotal role in the development of said behavior in young members. An American Medical Association nationwide survey reported that friends and family were their primary source for alcohol. Together, these statistics seem to indicate that teens know where to get alcohol and that it is readily accessible to them.
In this light, it becomes clear that a lot of the impetus to engage in risky drinking behavior starts at home. Personality factors related to underage drunk driving take into account things like genetics, risk factors, and maturity level. Those who have yet to mature mentally or emotionally may engage in drunk driving due to poor decision making, while those who have yet to mature physically may simply be more inhibited by the effects of alcohol because their bodies are smaller.
In Utah the BAC limit was lowered to 0. Law enforcement officials have been able to measure BAC accurately for decades, and the results obtained from testing devices is accepted in almost all jurisdictions in the United States. Campaigns against alcohol-impaired driving especially target drivers under the age of 21, repeat offenders and to year-olds, the age group that is responsible for more alcohol-related fatal crashes than any other.
To make sellers and servers of liquor more careful about to whom and how they serve drinks, 42 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws or have case law holding commercial liquor servers legally liable for the damage, injuries and deaths an alcohol-impaired driver causes. Thirty-eight states have enacted laws or have case law that permit social hosts who serve liquor to people who subsequently are involved in crashes to be held liable for any injury or death.
States identified mandate the devices on offenders' vehicles. Counts only laws meeting federal requirements.
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