Should the driving age be increased?

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Because car crashes are the leading teenage killer, Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research group funded by the auto insurance industry, believes that raising the legal age to drive from 16 to 17, or even 18, could possibly save thousands of lives every year, according to the AP.

"The bottom line is that when we look at the research, raising the driving age saves lives," Lund said. He plans to present the proposal Tuesday at the annual conference of the Governors Highway Safety Association in Scottsdale, Ariz.

"More than 5,000 U.S. teens die each year in car crashes. The rate of crashes, fatal and nonfatal, per mile driven for 16-year-old drivers is almost 10 times the rate for drivers ages 30 to 59, according to the National Highway Safety Administration. Many industrialized countries in Europe and elsewhere have a driving age of 17 or 18."


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