Teen Driving

Matt Woodley

Ms. Laury

10th grade Literature

February 29th, 2012

Teen driving

Teen driving is causing havoc across the globe. The teen driving age limit should be revised because of the high rate of crashes, teens not having high enough developed brains. This is why teens get into more motor vehicle accidents than anyone in the United States. The drinking habit for teens is not normally the problem. That actually accounts for hardly any percentage of crashes with young teens. If the driving age limit was increased, people may feel safer while taking their kids around. The government cannot get them off the roads; they just need to find a way to restrict their ways of being on them.

Teen driving ratios are scarier than they appear. Teens need bigger compact cars, because they get into bigger and more fatal crashes, and if they have a safe car, it might save their life. About 77 percent of all teen crashes are fatal. This is why the government is taking this matter very seriously. A little less than half the United States thinks that the driving age should be lengthened to 18 years of age. Now it's easy to see how this would cause riots because of the teens who had just got their licenses taken away, would want them back. They just wouldn't understand that it would be for their own safety, and also everyone else's safety. Jayne O'Donnell from USA TODAY had spoke her mind on the topic saying that they're the youngest, so they are all inexperienced at that age.

There have been new laws made so that teens have to go through and pass before they get the privileges of a professional driver's license. Under These new laws, aspiring drivers under the age of 18 will have to complete a 30-hour driver's education course. Another law that has been put into effect is while driving under a learner's permit or restricted license, they must log 50 hours of behind-the-wheel experience with a licensed driver. This could add up to a 10% discount on your insurance. Another safety law is you have to drive with a professional drivers ed teacher, 6 hours behind the wheel, and be able to have conversations while driving a car. By doing this, this gives you a higher discount on your car insurance. Maintaining a B average in school will also give you about a 20 percent discount on insurance. Then the driver will be able to take their drivers test.

Some teens may be good drivers, but they aren't smart ones. Over 60 percent of the teens who died in motor vehicle accidents were not wearing seat belts. Almost 50 percent of the crashes involving 16-year-old drivers were one-car accidents. This is ridiculous, because if they had been wearing their seat belt, the accident may have not been fatal. Problems like this