THE younger you start drinking, the more likely you are to have an alcohol-related car crash.
Researchers at Boston University School of Public Health and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Landover, Maryland, asked 42,862 people what age they started drinking and whether or not they had ever had a drink-driving accident.
The results showed that people who started drinking before the age of 14 were more than five times as likely to have crashed in the past year as those who started drinking after they turned 21. This was true even when the researchers excluded alcoholics from their study (
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