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Monday, February 7, 1983 5 Daily Nebraskan if if o ""f( If I 1J ' 1 r- - Guest Opinion 1 t - - - . Teen-age drivers are involved in one out of every five fatal accidents that occur. Close to 9,000 teen-agers (1 5 to 19 years old) were killed in motor vehicle accidents in 1980. Almost 60 percent of fatally injured teen-age drivers were found to have alcohol in their blood systems prior to crashing; 43 percent had blood alcohol concentration levels greater than or equal to .10 percent. Of the 25.000 persons who die each year in drunken driving accidents, 5,000 are teen-agers. That means 14 teen-agers die each day in drunken driving accidents. Alcohol involvement in tatal accidents involving teen agers is at least three times greater in night-time accidents (between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m.) than it is in daytime acci dents (between 4 a.m. and 8 p.m.). Although teen-agers comprise only 8 percent of the driver population and account for only 6 percent of the Letter Policy The Daily Nebraskan en courages brief letters to the editor from all readers and interested others. Letters will be selected for publication on the basis of clarity, originality, time liness and space available in the newspaper. Letters sent to the news paper for publication be come the property of the Daily Nebraskan and cannot be returned. Anonymous submissions will not be considered for publication, and request to withhold names will be granted only in exceptional circumstances. Submit all material to the Daily Nebraskan, Room 34, Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb. 68588. can EDITOR GENERAL MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER MANAGING EDITOR NEWS EDITOR ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITORS GRAPHICS EDITOR NIGHT NEWS EDITOR ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR ART DIRECTOR PHOTO CHIEF PUBLICATIONS BOARD CHAIRMAN Margia Horn Danial M. Stat til Jerry Scott Kitty PolKy Mich lata Thuman Sot Japaan Miry Bahna Duana Ratzlaff John G. Goacka David Wood Patty Pry or Bob Aimuwn David Luabka Cava Banti Doug Ntz. 472 2454 COPY EDITORS Kirk Brown Jaff Buattim BarbCaldwail Tarry Hyland Mark Krauca Oukia Shoanar Lori Sullivan Ward W. Triplatt III Chris Walsch THE DAILY NEBRASKAN (USPS 144-080) IS PUB LISHED BY THE UNL PUBLICATIONS BOARD MON DAY THROUGH FRIDAY DURING THE FALL AND SPRING SEMESTERS. EXCEPT DURING VACATIONS. POSTMASTkR: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN, RM. 34 NEBRASKA UNION, 68588. SUBSCRIPTIONS: SI3SEMESTER. S2SYEAR SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT LINCOLN, NE BRASKA. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT1983DAILY NEBRASKAN Editorial Policy Unsigned editorials re present the policy of the 1983 Daily Nebraskan but do not necessarily reflect the views of the Univer sity of Nebraska, its em ployees or the NU Board of Regents. The Daily Nebraskan's "publTsheis are the regents, who have established a publication board to super vise the daily production of the newspaper. Accord ing to policy set by the regents, the content of the UNL students newspaper lies solely in the hands of its student editors. FMEE UNIVERSITY Non-credit mini-courses Register for classes on Feb. 7-9 at booth in Nebraska Union Lobby from 10 AM-2 PM. Questions? call 472-2454 ft vehicle miles traveled in this country, they add up to 17 percent of all drivers involved in accidents and at least 15 percent of all drunken drivers in accidents. These facts were published by the U.S. Department of Transportation and were derived from a report by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis. What this report seems to confirm is that the establish ment of a legal drinking age doesn't seem to have much impact on the teen-age drunken driving problem. Only six states now establish the legal drinking age under 19 years, yet a disproportionate number of the traffic accidents attributed to alcohol across the United States involve young people under the legal age. There is now a bill pending in the state Legislature (LB56) that seeks to raise the legal drinking age from 20 to 21 - the second time in three years that the legal drinking age has been raised. The net result of the last rising of the legal drinking age in Nebraska was an increase in drunken driving arrests with a still disproportionate number of those involved in accidents and arrests under the legal drinking age. In my opinion, raising the legal drinking age is not an answer to the problem. The answer, if there is one, is in education and public awareness and a responsible attitude toward the dispensing of intoxicating beverages on the part of those who derive their livelihood from its existence. Rick Clarke general manager, P.O. 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