First thing Sunday morning, you go in the kitchen and open up the newspaper. Once again the front page reads, "High School Students Killed" or " Teen Loses Control". Why? Another car accident. The truth is the number of deaths and accidents caused by 16 year olds every day is astonishing. I believe the only way to stop the rising epidemic is to raise the driving age, implement a rewards program, and increase parental involvement.
Raising the driving age would make a huge impact in the amount of car accidents, but its not necessarily the teens fault, its their brains. Every person is taking a risk when getting into a car, but do parents realize how much of a risk it is to place their teen in one? "The studies point to the fact that teens are taking the highest risk because in some respects the brains don't know any better," said William Bronrott, a Democratic legislator representing Montgomery County in Maryland's House of Delegates. (Stark 2).
Researchers studying the brain......
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