Students who engaged in any of the other transportation risk behaviors measured by the survey were approximately 3–13 times as likely to have also engaged in driving after drinking alcohol at least once during the 30 days before the survey.
Riding with a drinking driver was higher among Hispanic students or students with lower grades.high school students rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol at least once during the 30 days before the survey. Driving after drinking alcohol was higher among students who were older, male, Hispanic, or had lower grades.high school students who drove, 5.4% drove when they had been drinking alcohol at least once during the 30 days before the survey. Results from the 2019 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey 12 revealed the following:.
2,15 Teen drivers have a much higher risk for being involved in a crash than older drivers at the same blood alcohol concentration (BAC), even at BAC levels below the legal limit for adults.
11 For example, results from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS) Controlled Intersection study from 2016–2019 indicate that seat belt use in the front seat among teens and young adults (16–24 years of age) was approximately 87% each year, whereas seat belt use among adults (25 years of age or older) in the front seat was about 90% or higher for each year during the same period. Compared with other age groups, teens and young adults often have the lowest seat belt use rates.In 2019, 40% of motor vehicle crash deaths among teens aged 13–19 occurred between 9 pm and 6 am, and 52% occurred on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.Data from the 2016–2017 National Household Travel Survey indicate that teen drivers aged 16–19 years were almost 3 times as likely to be involved in fatal nighttime crashes than adult drivers aged 30–59 years per mile driven.Nighttime driving is riskier than daytime driving for drivers of all ages but is particularly dangerous for teen drivers.8,9 Teens are also more likely than adults to make critical decision errors that can lead to serious crashes.