Drunk driving is one of the significant problems among teenage drivers. New Zealand teenagers under 18 are allowed to drink alcohol only inside private residence and with parent supervision, but it is obvious that some teenager didn’t follow the law, and sometimes they don’t know when to stop drinking. A report showed there were 2300 teenagers caught drunk driving since 2007 in New Zealand, 12 of them had more than 1000ml of alcohol in their blood which is about 12 times the legal adult limit. It is somehow related to the previous argument, which young drivers tend to make an inappropriate decision. Young drivers knew the risks of driving after consuming alcohol yet made the decision to drive after drinking.
It is said that young people are generally more likely to be distracted by mobile media devices or by other teenage passenger. A statistic observed in United State that 40% of 16-year-old drivers involved in fatal crashes in 2003 had more than one teen passenger, and the risk of dying increase if the passenger is a male.
In New Zealand, on 28 May 2011, a boy called Shaun Nilson was killed in an accident by his peer friends Levi Elliott who’s 16 back then. Shaun was a passenger in the car, and Levi was more than five times over the adult drink-drive limit. This is just one of the examples of worst combination, a drunk-drive teenager and other male teenager.
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