One consequence of binge drinking is possible death. At that level of intoxication, driving ability diminishes. Young drivers make up 6.7 percent of the total driving population, but constitute 13 percent of the alcohol-involved drivers in fatal accidents. On any given weekend, an average of one teenager dies an hour in a car crash, and nearly 50 percent of those crashes involve alcohol. There are many reasons for binge drinking.
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College presidents, researchers, MADD, SADD and students are joining forces to attack binge drinking and its problems. Student alcohol awareness classes are being taught across the nation. Eighty percent of schools are targeting the major participants of binge drinking, and they are offering special educational programs. Other suggested solutions for binge drinking include banning advertisers from targeting college students, increasing the cost of alcohol, making alcohol less accessible to students by forbidding the sale of alcohol around campuses, enforcing stricter fines for false identification and contributing to minors and developing peer counseling programs. Beer is already banned on 25 percent of all college campuses, and 33 percent do not allow distilled spirits.