Raising the Driving Age to 18
Raising the Driving Age to 18
In the world today one of the most exciting parts of growing up is getting your driver’s license. Everyone counts on getting their sweet 16 car and license, but is that really the important part? Well yes as all teenagers would say. Even though it comes to losing their life because of inexperience, and immaturity on the road. There are lots of reasons why the driving age should be raised. ”All 50 states prohibit 16-year-olds from drinking alcohol, buying cigarettes, and purchasing handguns. Yet somehow most states are willing to put them in charge of a car, which could potentially be a deadly weapon.”(Amico). Driving is one of the leading causes of death for teenagers, their brain is not fully developed, and with more drivers on the road that is more pollution to the earth.
It is shown in researches that it would lower fatalities if the age to get your license was raised to 18 or at least if the age was higher. It also has shown that there are other ways to cut down on fatalities but this seems to be the best way to get there. The top cause of death for teenagers is vehicle, car accidents. Fatal and non-fatal crashes per mile driven for 16-year-old drivers is almost 10 times the rate for drivers ages 30 to 49. More than 5,000 teens die a year in the United States and more than 3,000 of them were not wearing their seatbelt in the process. With those 5,000 added there are more than 250,000 injuries of teens by car Black 2 accidents. There has been a lot of discussion in the government to change the law for the driving age from 16 to 18 for a long time in New Jersey. New Jersey considered making the time period longer that a young driver has a permit, from 6 to 12 months, which would probably help too. They finally came to the decision to actually make some changes. New Jersey’s change consisted of making the driving age 17 instead of 16, and since then the number of teen driving fatalities has had a consistent
In the world today one of the most exciting parts of growing up is getting your driver’s license. Everyone counts on getting their sweet 16 car and license, but is that really the important part? Well yes as all teenagers would say. Even though it comes to losing their life because of inexperience, and immaturity on the road. There are lots of reasons why the driving age should be raised. ”All 50 states prohibit 16-year-olds from drinking alcohol, buying cigarettes, and purchasing handguns. Yet somehow most states are willing to put them in charge of a car, which could potentially be a deadly weapon.”(Amico). Driving is one of the leading causes of death for teenagers, their brain is not fully developed, and with more drivers on the road that is more pollution to the earth.
It is shown in researches that it would lower fatalities if the age to get your license was raised to 18 or at least if the age was higher. It also has shown that there are other ways to cut down on fatalities but this seems to be the best way to get there. The top cause of death for teenagers is vehicle, car accidents. Fatal and non-fatal crashes per mile driven for 16-year-old drivers is almost 10 times the rate for drivers ages 30 to 49. More than 5,000 teens die a year in the United States and more than 3,000 of them were not wearing their seatbelt in the process. With those 5,000 added there are more than 250,000 injuries of teens by car Black 2 accidents. There has been a lot of discussion in the government to change the law for the driving age from 16 to 18 for a long time in New Jersey. New Jersey considered making the time period longer that a young driver has a permit, from 6 to 12 months, which would probably help too. They finally came to the decision to actually make some changes. New Jersey’s change consisted of making the driving age 17 instead of 16, and since then the number of teen driving fatalities has had a consistent