According to the Association for Safe International Road Travel crashes due to drivers ages 16-
20 have killed 8,000 people per year. Already this is a devastating amount of accidents and injuries to be accounted for because of young drivers. We should not add to this number and do everything we can to lower the statistics. This can only be accomplished if we do not permit young teenagers, at age fourteen and fifteen, to receive their driver's license. Although young teens should be slowly given more responsibility to prepare them for adulthood they should not be put behind the wheel of a car. Teenagers can get careless or even reckless when given the means to be independent. When with friends, young teens can get over confident with their abilities and do not check their surroundings for danger or other drivers. Also, teenagers depend on their parents to guide them though life. If teenagers could drive places of their own choosing they would no longer be under the supervision of their parents, who keep them safe. In order to keep all drivers safe teenagers under the age of sixteen should not
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Eventually, the government may be pressured into lowering other age restrictions that would be harmful to the young population of the world. What would stop people from lowering the age restrictions for legal drinking or buying cigarettes? The same careless teens that were driving would try to exploit other things that will be harmful to them, but they will not have the maturity to see the mistakes that could ruin their lives. Due to the nature of the way teenagers think they will not see the unhealthy actions that they are doing. They will get even more heedless and thoughtless of their situations. Lowering the age restriction would be a mistake that would not only hurt the general population but would have the biggest impact on the teenagers who do not know