(Bloomberg) — U.S. teens recognize the importance of using a designated driver to get home. The problem is, that person isn't always sober.
About one in five adolescents say it's fine for their driver to have some alcohol or use drugs, as long as that person isn't too impaired to drive. Four percent just pick the least inebriated person to take them home, Liberty Mutual Holding Co. and a safety group found in a survey released today.
Teens “seem to think that unless they're really falling-down drunk, that it's OK for them to drive,” David Melton, managing director for global safety at Liberty Mutual, said in a phone interview.
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