Persuasive Essay On Teenage Driving

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In the 21st century, our nation is facing a major issue, causing teenagers to lose their lives at the hand of the wheel due to inexperienced driving. “Teen drivers between the ages of 16 and 19 are four times more likely than older drivers to be involved in an automobile crash,” and statistics show. Automobile accidents are the number one cause of teen deaths. Driving regulations are in high need to be changed in order for teenagers to gain more experience with driving before taking the driving test, which could help save countless adolescence’s lives.

People, like Brittany Leedham was fortuitous to survive from a teen car accident, but others like her boyfriend Zak Kerinuk was not able to come out of the crash alive. The event started the Saturday night after Thanksgiving, November 29th, 2008. Just in the year 2008 alone, a total of 3,118 teenagers in America died due to a result of a car accident. They were riding in a convertible Mustang GT going at 70 miles per hour when Zak swerved off the road, hitting a hackberry tree. The impact killed him as she struggled to survive, losing half of her own blood, her legs broke during the crash, as well as her pelvic bone as she called out for help. Looking …show more content…

In South Carolina, teenagers can't drive after 6 p.m. in winter (8 p.m. in summer), and in Idaho, they're banned from driving from sundown to sunup.] As some states have made changes, more work needs to be done such as the sunshine state, which is a perfect key example. Florida needs to regulate more rules in order to not only help statistics, but make it safer for my state. Orlando, Miami, and other iconic areas of the state is one of the highest accounts for traveling tourists which put teens at peril from those who are unfamiliar with Florida

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