Adults believe increasing the age on legal driving will resolve many problems with teenage car accidents, such as drinking and driving and distracted driving. Moving the age to eighteen however, may not reduce the number of accidents but increase them. As of 2015 the percentage of teenage alcoholics was high, from an age as low as fourteen and rises to over the age of eighteen and in today's society many young adults care more about their phone than anything. Even though traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teenage driving, the legal driving age should not be moved to eighteen because it will become more dangerous for teens. For the reason that when a minor does something wrong they feel the need to hide it, and this could set up a dangerous situation for many kids.
Studies have linked texting, drugs and alcohol to teenage car accidents from the ages of fifteen to twenty. Since 1993 the number of fatal car accident has increased 13% based on one of the most dangerous forms of distracted driving, texting. Many people want to believe that teens take up most of the percentage from texting and driving, however, there is no specific age. If the state moves the legal driving age to eighteen, minors will be more inclined to get in a
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“Around five thousand youth under the age 21 die from motor vehicle crashes”(Underage drinking 1). Teenage alcoholics are common even though not many people talk about them. Kids that grow up in a home with an alcoholic are more likely to start drinking around the age of fourteen and the amount of alcohol they drink goes up 60%. Adolescents around alcohol has an unfortunate effect such as depression, anxiety, antisocial behavior, and aggression. Depressed teens are more prone to drink under the age of 21 and are more possible to get in a car accident. Alcohol has a negative influence on everyone, and that negative effect can ruin your