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In 1980, when the legal drinking age in New Jersey was changed to 19, fatalities were at an all-time high for 18 to 20 year olds, with 88 young people losing their lives in drunk driving crashes on our roadways.n 2007, ten young people were killed in drunk driving crashes on New Jersey roadways. That number has remained constant since 2005. Overall, the State has experienced a 78 percent reduction in DWI fatalities for young people ages 18 to 20 since the drinking age was raised to 21 in the 1980âs.
Keep the New Jersey drinking age at 21 | Editorial. The 21-year-old minimal legal drinking age has been our national law since 1984, and while any state is free to lower it, it would be slammed with a 10-percent penalty in its federal funding for transportation.