A cliché, it is, that all teenagers are “reckless”, especially behind the steering wheel. But should teenagers be able to drive at such a young age? Many will disagree, but the age of sixteen is too young for canadian teens to start driving. One in five teenagers will have a car crash within their first year of driving and sixteen year olds get into serious crashes five times the rate than that of older drivers. The leading cause of teen deaths is car accidents. In fact, about ten Canadian teens die everyday due to these accidents. Teenagers tend to overreact and make interesting decisions. Why is that? The frontal lobes of the brain are not easily accessible for a teenager and when an important part of your brain is not fast-working, you may
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If sixteen year olds are in danger, think of the fifteen year olds in america! With music blasting, friends jabbering and phones beeping, the teenaged brain is easily distracted while driving. These distractions in particular contribute to nearly sixty percent of teen accidents. Another danger for a teen, though you’ve heard it many times before yet still is a problem, is alcohol. It is often that adults drink and drive, but teenagers impaired driving is especially common during the summer: the party season. Teenagers make up seventeen percent of alcohol related collisions, two thousand underaged drinkers die every year in a car. So don’t hop in your car after you’ve cracked open a cold one, please. An experienced driver in the passenger seat can help a licensed teenager, but can’t protect said teenager from the other adolescents on the road. Even without a license, those darn teens still get a hold of a car to drive. Number may continue to drop each year but young drivers remain twice as likely to cause or be in a collision that older drivers. If you must get your license on your sixteenth like all the cool kids, think about the possible consequences. Turn your phone off, decline the drink, and maybe just wait until you feel ready to get on the
If sixteen year olds are in danger, think of the fifteen year olds in america! With music blasting, friends jabbering and phones beeping, the teenaged brain is easily distracted while driving. These distractions in particular contribute to nearly sixty percent of teen accidents. Another danger for a teen, though you’ve heard it many times before yet still is a problem, is alcohol. It is often that adults drink and drive, but teenagers impaired driving is especially common during the summer: the party season. Teenagers make up seventeen percent of alcohol related collisions, two thousand underaged drinkers die every year in a car. So don’t hop in your car after you’ve cracked open a cold one, please. An experienced driver in the passenger seat can help a licensed teenager, but can’t protect said teenager from the other adolescents on the road. Even without a license, those darn teens still get a hold of a car to drive. Number may continue to drop each year but young drivers remain twice as likely to cause or be in a collision that older drivers. If you must get your license on your sixteenth like all the cool kids, think about the possible consequences. Turn your phone off, decline the drink, and maybe just wait until you feel ready to get on the