Raising the legal driving age would help lower the number of teenage driving deaths. It would make the roads safer for the rest of the people. Auto insurance rates would be lowered for all drivers. Look both ways or get ready for the consequences.
Raising the legal driving age would help lower the number of teenage driving deaths. A ten-year-old girl named Clover died a few days earlier after the car driven by her 16-year-old sister was involved in a head on collision. The number of deaths on the roads in the U.S. are greater than the number of deaths reported of U.S. soldiers before and after in Iraq. 3,657 drivers age 15 to 20 years old were killed in 2003. In 2002 the number killed in the same age range was 3,827. People are put on this Earth to live a long time.
We need to make the roads safer for the rest of the people. A pregnant woman was driving with her two children and a 17-year-old boy hit her. 17-year-old people are not mature enough to drive a car yet because they would race with their friends and crash into objects. Raising the legal driving age to 18 would benefit all concerns. It's different if one person dies rather than millions of people dying.
Auto insurance rates would be lowered for all drivers. A family's insurance rates double when a teenage girl is added, to policy rates triple when a teenage boy is added because teens are high-risk drivers. The insurance for a family's insurance plan can range from several hundred dollars to several thousand dollars with a teen driver. Car insurance rates will jump for 50% to 200% the minute a teenage driver is added to their parent's policy.
Raising the legal driving age would help lower the number of teenage driving deaths and make the roads safer for the rest of the drivers. Auto insurance rates would also be lowered for all drivers. The legal driving age should be raised to 18.
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