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LOWER DRINKING AGE DEBATE * USA - Idea attacked by governors group
The Governors Highway Safety Association reacted harshly to the idea of lowering the drinking age to 18Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News Services -9 Oct 2007: -- The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reacted harshly Tuesday to a suggestion by a former college president that lowering the drinking age to 18 would curb binge driving and alcohol-related deaths among young adults... John McCardell Jr., president of Middlebury College from 1990 to 2004, told an audience in Greewich, Conn., recent he believes that when the drinking age was raised to 21 in 1984, it gave rise to young adults abusing alcohol in social settings where they had no supervision... McCardell said that a drop in alcohol-related fatalities after the drinking age was raised to 21 is not related to the changed law, but is instead attributable to increased awareness of the dangers of drunken driving and better enforcement.... But Christopher J. Murphy; chairman of the organization and director of the California Office of Traffic Safety; said, that the GHSA is committed to seeing that the drinking age is not lowered... (Photo: The Governors Highway Safety Association reacted harshly to the idea of lowering the drinking age to 18)
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