Lowering Driving Age

According to the Healthresearchfunding.org site, there are fewer drunk driving traffic accidents and fatalities in many countries with a minimum drinking age of 18. This is a statistic which is supporting lowering the drinking age. This is showing how there is a drop in numbers of people who are involved in drunk driving accidents because their drinking age is 18. When you lower the drinking age, it makes the urge and temptation of alcohol not as high. When they are able to start drinking at a younger age, they are able to learn how to maintain a healthy balance of the substance. Also, when something is so readily available to them there is not as high as a craving for it. Lowering the drinking age while raising the driving age also gives
According to the Health Research Funding’s article, “drinking at a younger age makes individuals seven times more likely to be the offender of an alcohol-related vehicle crash.”, and also “out of all of the alcohol-related crashes that kill teenagers, approximately ¼ of the fatalities are underage drinkers”. This being said, our country obviously has a serious problem with underage drinkers relating with car accidents. When teenagers drink underage they are known to make impulsive decisions, but adding a license to the mix is asking for trouble. A simple fix for this is to raise the driving age to 19 and make it harder to get a license. The license process should entail of a series of questions along with a high cost to attain the license as well. “Almost one in four drivers believes the driving age should increase to 18 and statistics show that young motorists have poorer driving records than older drivers” as reported by Auto Express’ article about automobile driving. Germany is an example of a country that is using this method. Their legal age to drink is sixteen where as their legal driving age is eighteen and it’s made extremely difficult to obtain a license. Information from one.nhtsa’s article proves that Germany’s alcohol involved car fatalities percentage is much lower than the United State’s percentage. It shows that Germany has a 17% alcohol related car fatality rate, whereas the United States has a 38.6% alcohol related car fatality rate. Another statistic from Choose Responsibility’s article states that “ a recent NHTSA study that compared DUI laws in the United States to those in comparable nations, such as the European Union States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil, found that the United States had the highest proportion of traffic fatalities that were