by noreply@blogger.com (Heritage Home Foundation)
22. February 2010 18:47
Research has found a significant increase in the number of drunk driving incidents among young women from 1995 to 2007. Men, who characteristically are the culprits of drunk driving, still make up the vast majority of drunk drivers in the US.
However, researchers are seeing an alarming increase of both drunk driving and the number of fatal car crashes involving alcohol among young women.
Using data from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, researchers have found an alarming rise in the number of young women drunk drivers. As well, as a direct result, the number of fatal car accidents involving young women drivers has also risen—3.1 percent increase in the same 12-year period.
These results point to an overall increase in women consuming alcohol. It has become socially acceptable for women to both drink in public and be inebriated. This is especially true among young women where there is a culture of
alcohol abuse.
Drinking, regardless of age or gender, leads to risky behaviours and risk-taking—from driving drunk and recklessly, to unsafe sex.
From the Yale University School of Medicine and lead by Dr. Federico Vaca, professor of emergency medicine, the study is published in the latest issue of Injury Prevention.
Alcohol-related accidents were classified in five different age groups: 16, 17, 18, 19 to 20, and 21 to 24-year olds. From 1997 to 2007, a total of 179,981 accidents were recorded across all the age groups.
Source: BusinessWeek
