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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.
Pennsylvania is one of 11 states whose minimum drinking age has been 21 since the 1930s. New Jersey changed from age 18 to 19 in 1980 and then to age 21 in 1983. New York changed from age 18 to 19 in 1982 and to age 21 in 1985.alifornia, Oregon and Washington have had 21 year old minimum drinking ages since the 1930s. Alaska adopted an age 21 law in 1984 and Hawaii did so in 1986. Oregon was the third state in the nation, after Maryland and Arizona, to adopt a zero tolerance law.