IS the one year teen liscence restriction benefial to safety and health in our socitey?

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I don't know the restrictions in your state, but in Michigan, after completing driver's training teens are required to complete 30 hours of driving with a parent before they can have a full license. When I was in high school, everyone I spoke with just has their parents sign off on the required 30 hours without completion. I convinced my parents to do the same so I could pick up my neice from school and run errands for them. The restricted license did me no good.

Yes, absolutely, teen restrictions are beneficial.

Teens are not experienced drivers, and the driver training most receive is a joke. (Some states require no formal training, just what mom or dad showed them.) The restriction is intended to lessen the amount of injuries and deaths while these drivers better their skills and gain experience. Also, it prevents them from having passengers to show-off for or to goad them into stupid actions that endanger others.

Yes........................

DECEMBER 2007

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among 15- to 20-year olds.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 3,490 drivers in this age group died in motor vehicle crashes in 2006 and an additional 272,000 were injured.

Drivers age 15- to 20-years old accounted for 12.9 percent of all the drivers involved in fatal crashes and 16 percent of all the drivers involved in police-reported crashes.

Twenty-five percent of teen drivers killed were intoxicated. In 2002 (latest data available) the estimated economic cost of police-reported crashes involving drivers between the ages of 15 and 20 was $40.8 billion.