They don’t even have their licenses; nonetheless, 17% of the rural middle schoolers in a recent University of Georgia study reported that they had driven after drinking alcohol. According to the same study, 45% percent of the students (7th and 8th graders) said in the past 30 days they had ridden with a driver who had been drinking. The findings were based on just one school in the Mississippi Delta.
Rural Middle Schoolers Drinking and Driving
<img src="/files/u2/whiskey-thumb.jpg" title="whiskey bottles thumbnail" alt="whiskey bottles thumbnail" align="middle" height="112" width="125" />They don't even have their licenses; nonetheless, 17% of the rural middle schoolers in <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071031121528.htm" target="_blank" title="University of Georgia middle school drinking and driving">a recent University of Georgia study</a> reported that they had driven after drinking alcohol. According to the same study, 45% percent of the students (7th and 8th graders) said in the past 30 days they had ridden with a driver who had been drinking. The findings were based on just one school in the Mississippi Delta.
