Why do some young people drink and drive?

As the way they like it. some of them enjoy it and take it as adventure. As a matter of fact it should not be done for safety causes.

When i was still at 17,i am such single motor driver. After i get along with my friends, like going anywhere,drinking house to house,then go home driven my motor drunk. But when got accident, i never do it again. Sometime,you only learn from your mistakes when it happened.

sadly its more adults that do it then teens...I know SO MANY adults who drink and drive over teens its sickening....ranging from regular ppl to cab/taxi drivers to truckers and so on...its sickening..

Hey, hey now. It's not fair to pin drinking and driving on young drivers completely like this. It is not just young drivers that drive under the influence. It is older drivers, too. i watch COPS, a reality show where they shadow police officers durring their routes. i see far more older people being pulled over for irradic, drunk driving than young people. It's just that young people get a stigma, and that is NOT fair. my cousnin's husband was killed in a drunk driving incident. They had been at a bar all night drinking and celebrating about their new place and their new marriage. The bar tenders SHOULD have cut them off or insisted on taking the car keys, but none of them did. They were both drunk, be he decided to drive. They got in the truk and started driving. They got lost. He started driving like a crazy man, playing "Dukes of Hazzard." He endd up losing control and rolling off a cliff. He was thown from the truck. SHe was still in the truc, but her arm flipped out the window when the truck was rolling and it completely crushed most of her arm. Once the truck stopped moving, she crawled out and found her husband, motionless. She tried hopelessly to revive him, screaming for help. Witnesses who stopped to help were unable to pull her from her husband. She worked on him hard until the paramedics got there and they were able to force her from his lifeless form. She was ruched to the hospitals with quite a few injuries. Her whole arm almost was removed, but they were able to save it in the end. 3 of her fingers on her right hand have pins inthem and will never move again, but she still has the arm. She has to live every single day with this nightmare playing in her mind. She and her husband had only been married 5 months when this happened. No, he was not a young driver. He was 29. So, you see, it is not aways a young driver that drins and drives.

I hear parents talking about letting their kids drink a home even though they are under the legal drinking age and I get so upset about it. To me it tells the kids it is OK to drink and some parents even let the kids friends stop by and drink in their home. The kids then decide to go and they let them. I have complained to local police about it and got no response. I think it starts at home and parents need to be more responsible about the problem. Teenagers dieing and hurting them selves and other people because of DUI isn't taken serious enough I don't think.

some young men drive on their cars or even their bikes very drank for some reasons: they do have problems in life either that would be emotional ( well mostly emotional though ) or in the family, jobs, friends, financial and etc. but most people i have heard about this thing is that they do this when they have got hurt from their girlfriends. young men often do this thing because it is the easiest way to express themselves for they are still immature on the things that they are handling. they do not know what to do that is why they just drive and drive after drinking.