How To Prevent Teen Driving Persuasive Essay

Driving is the main type of transportation that people use to get around, as it is convenient and can make things easier for the typical busy-body of today . Driving can also be dangerous; if someone irresponsible is driving, it can lead to the person hurting , or even killing , themselves or others. Teenage driving should be eliminated in the United states, it will lower traffic, students would have to take public transportation thus causing less pollution, and , since the teenage accident rate is roughly 3.7 times higher than adults, eliminating teenage driving will result with lowering accident rates. Teen drivers are caught violating traffic laws more often than adults, teenagers can have a poorer hazard detection, and are more likely to take risks. In 2008 there were approximately 6,428 people killed due to teenage driving, in contrast to older adult (65 and older) driver’s fatalities that was around 5,500 in 2008. Car crashes are the number one cause of teen death in the US, about eight teens die every day due to DUI crashes. Talking on a cell phone can double the chance of an accident and slow down reaction times, and 56% of …show more content…
Having other people in the car while a teen is driving can increase the crash rate to almost as much as the crash rate for drunk driving, 90% of drivers say they see behavior that distracts them. Half of the teens asked said that they have been encouraged by other passengers in the car to go faster than the speed limit, half of the teens asked also admit to driving over ten miles per hour over the speeding limit at times. Speeding is the main cause of teen crashes and fatality rates while driving, speeding can cause an increase in the time needed to break before stopping, thus causing the more likely chance of a