Essay #4..

Teenagers should get their license at the age of eighteen years old instead of sixteen years old. When a teenager gets their license at the age of sixteen years old, that is another car accident waiting to happen. The rate of a car accident from a teenager is about ten percent of the U.S population, but account for twelve percent all fatal car crashes. Each year, over five-thousand teenagers of the ages sixteen to twenty die due to fatal injuries caused by car accidents. About four-hundred thousand drivers of the age sixteen to twenty are seriously injured due to car accidents. Drivers (both female and male) under the age of twenty-four account for thirty percent or twenty-six billion dollars of the total cost of car accidents in the U.S. The death rate for teenage male drivers and passengers in car accidents is more than one and a half times female teenage drivers. Male drivers between the ages of fifteen and twenty, thirty-eight were speeding and twenty-four percent had been drinking and driving. 
     Teenage drivers tend to underestimate hazardous driving situations and are less able than older drivers to recognize dangerous situations. If you were to ask yourself why teenagers should drive, you have no list. I found that your rear lobe in your brain, the one responsible for reflexes, does not mature until you are the age of twenty-nine years old. This is why teenagers have the number one spot on the highest driving fatality rates in the U.S. Teenagers are not responsible enough to be driving at such a young age. Most teens may see driving as being fun rather than just as transportation. Some teenagers may just go joy riding in a car for fun at night or during the day. They may go at night because they believe there are no cops anywhere around and to find a street where there are not any cars to be able to drag race. Drag racing can mean speeds of one-hundred miles per hour.
     Many teenagers go to parties from about eight till two in the morning most of the time. Many teens drive to parties which means they drive back home at about two o'clock in the morning. At many of these parties, there is drinking going on so many of these teens that are deriving home at two in the morning can be drunk. Not only can they be drunk, but also sleepy. That is not a good combination at all. You will either fall asleep at the wheel, or get into a bad accident due to being drunk. A lot of these teens love to give rides out to other teens so they have some people in the car with them. They turn the music up loud. In this case, they are not able to hear anything going on outside of the car. Your friends could be in the car talking a lot so you would not be able to concentrate on the road. This is how so many accidents happen with teenagers.
     The thing teens love to do the most is text message. Teens text when they wake up before they do anything else. They text during school, while they eat dinner, and many other things, but the most dangerous is to text while driving. Texting and driving is just as bad as driving and driving.
     The driving age should be changed from sixteen to eighteen. To many people are getting killed because of teen car accidents.