Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience will agree that the
legal driving age should be changed to 18 years of age.
Introduction
I. The driving age should be raised to 18; people at the age of 16 are too young to handle the responsibility of driving a car.
II. “The risk of crash involvement per mile driven among 16-19 year olds is 4 times the risk among older drivers.” (highwaysafety.org)
III. “Risk is highest at age 16-17. In fact, the crash rate per mile driven is almost 3 times as high among 16 year olds as it is among 18-19 year olds.” (highwaysafety.org)
Central Idea (Thesis): Please consider raising the driving age so that our youth of today
will be safe and will be responsible when we do hand them the
keys to their cars.
Body
I. We have the statistics, now we need the explanation.
A. “Crash rates are high largely because of young drivers immaturity combined with driving inexperience.” (Road Injury Prevention & Litigation Journal)
B.......
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