Safety group wants driving age raised to 17 or 18
Posted on September 9th, 2008 by bile Tags: America, Arizona, Brazil, China, Europe, Governors Highway Safety Association, insurance industry, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Japan, Russia, Scottsdale, United StatesDrivers age 15 to 20 are the deadliest age group on the roads, and now a safety organization is trying to drum up support for bumping up the driving age in U.S. states to 17 or 18, to reduce the carnage on America’s roadways.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety today is releasing a report encouraging higher driving ages at a conference of the Governors Highway Safety Association in Scottsdale, Ariz. The institute notes that most of Europe as well as China, Japan, Russia and Brazil allow people to start driving at age 18. The agency, funded by the insurance industry, says several U.S. states have tried but failed to boost the age to 17 or 18.
More individuals looking to treat young adults as children and further removing their personal responsibility. They raise the smoking age to 19, fight to keep drinking at 21, make SCHIP cover those upto the age 25. The childification of these young adults will only cause greater problems.
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September 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
The further childification of American citizens will only cause greater problems.
Fixed it for you
September 9th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
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September 10th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I’m with xyz on this one.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:53 am
We need to cage these dangerous people into one place during the day so that the adults can safely conduct their business. We’ll place them in centralized community locations with a few adult “guards” to keep the peace. They are so dangerous that we should even restrict their access to the workplace even when they aren’t in the community cage. Why aren’t these dangerous thugs made illegal?