One reason the driving age should be raised is because countless teens are involved in accidents every year. To begin with a 2017 article approaching the topic of current percentages of teen car wrecks. In 2015, teens, ages 16-19 were killed due to a car accident putting them in emergency departments for medical care. They then looked at numbers and found that 2,333 teens were killed in the U.S. and 221,313 were in critical care in 2014. This means that six teens ages 16-19 died every day from motor vehicle injuries. Many teens fall asleep behind the wheel due to lack of sleep from many activities and schoolwork keeping them up late. These high numbers provoke us to be aware when driving but is that enough? The human brain isn’t fully developed
