The United States needs to make stricture laws and restrictions on teen driving. Tougher laws for teen drivers can dramatically reduce the number of crashes and fatalities on state roads. These laws need to prevent deaths that happen each year. Thousands of innocent people die every year from one ridiculous and preventable problem; teen driving. Statistics prove that teen poor decision making and inexperience with Auto-Mobiles are two reasons that so many people die in the US each year. As a reaction the United States needs to reinforce stricter law and restrictions on teen-age driving. Car crashes are the number one killer of teens in the United States. Teen-agers are four more times more likely to die in a car crash than all the other age groups combined. Teen drivers drive fewer miles that any other age group and they still have the highest accident rate with all types of crashes; from only property damage to horrible fatal collisions. Per miles traveled, teens still have the highest involvement rates an all types of crashes. (Source C) In 1999 more than 5,700 teens had died in auto-mobile crashes alone, and in 1990 approximately 6,364 teens has died in vehicle collisions. (Source C) Although teen-age drivers only relate for 7% of the driving population, teens are also responsible for 14% of all deadly crashes. (Source A) These statistics are enough to show that teen drivers are dangerous. If that isn�t enough here is a real story of a teen drive that became a statistic. Stephanie was the oldest in her class so she mostly hung out with a younger crowd. Heather had spent the night before at a friends house and the two had spent the day shopping and trying on cloths. They curled their hair, painted their nails, and asked if they could go see a movie. Instead they went over to a friend�s house for an end of the summer party. Stephanie and a 16-year-old boy were dispatched to buy beer. The clerk at the shell gas station and the deli mark on Benson Drive didn�t even bother carding them at all. Armed with a case of beer of St. Lades Brew. They rejoined the party, which now had moved to Zoos Elementary School. Later the party rejoined at another friend house that had no adults in control. Heather only sipped on a beer and said that she didn�t like it. Stephanie only took a couple drinks on a few beers; a Breathalyzer would later register a .02 blood-alcohol level the legal limit for juveniles. They had left the party at about 1:15. Stephanie and Heather jumped and buckled them selves in the two front seats. Marie and Miranda jumped into the back seats and didn�t even bother putting on their seatbelts. Stephanie speeded down 148th south-East-Street a long a stretch know as 100-mile-an-hour-road. Where local kids tested their own horse power and nerve. The country had not put guard rails and speed bumps on the mortal road. The speed sign said that the speed limit was posted at 25 miles per hour and Stephanie must have been driving twice that speed when she missed the curve. The silence that she had gone threw in her mind had just stunned her. She said,� I though that I had killed everyone. I had got out of the car and I pulled out Miranda from the back and I went to the other side of the car, but the door wouldn�t open.� The tree that has since has been cut down, bore scars of earlier accidents. Nearbyhome owner rushed into the night shouting at his wife to bring the phone while cradling Stephanie in his arms. The cars front took most of the impact. Heathers leg and head slammed into the metal dash board that shattered connections to her brain. Marie hit the back of Heathers seat so hard that the aorta ripped from her heart. Miranda�s jaw was sprained and tendons in her leg were severe. Stephanie had bruises on her face, shoulders, arms, and legs. She said that she remember police crusers and an ambulance. An officer had asked her if she had drunk that night and she said yes. He asked her if she was drunk and she said no. She said,� The police officer handcuffed me and them threw me in back of his patrol car. He also made me watch them put Marie into a body bag and cut Heather from the car. The officer came up to Heather yelling �Do you know what you have just done? This is a crime seen now! You have killed one of your friends! Do you understand? Then the officer slammed the door and a scar was left in their lives forever. This is exactly why teen driving is so dangerous! The story above is just one of many tragedies that happen each year that is caused by teen driving. (Source B) Another reason that that makes teen driving so dangerous is that most teen drivers lack good judgment, they lack experience, and a lot of teens have to handle peer pressure. Teens also have a scene of invulnerability. (Source I) �Things just don�t think that they�re going to get hurt�, says Susan Ferguson, senior vice president for research of the Insurance Institute.(Source I) Rob Foss, a fellow at the University of North Carolina�s highway safety research center says, �Things that you see 15 and 16 year olds doing are thinking that they�re inevitable in terms of their impulsiveness.� (Source I) About 70% speed and 39% don�t even wear seatbelts according to the survey of 700 teens and 400 parents. (Source C) Most of young vehicle accidents are signal car collisions that occurbecause of driver error or speeding. This reflects their lack of experience and maturity factors. The two main reasons that I find that causes adolescent motor vehicle crashes are when teens drive at night and when teen-agers have high number of passengers. Young drivers are twice likely to die with just one passenger and six times likely to die with just two or more passengers. 1.99% death of teens didn�t have any passengers, 2.76% death of teens had just one passenger, and 5.61% of teen deaths had three or more passengers in their car. (Source G) Rates of teen traffic crashes increase after 10.P.M. and severely rise after midnight. (Source G) �It�s pretty clear that states shouldn�t let teens drive at night, and certainly not with a bundle of passengers�, Says Robert Foss of the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. (Source G) If the United Stated wants to do nothing about this mess that we have on our hands then they should just sit back and watch the statistics rise and look at death after death among teens and many others. If we want to save lives this is a problem that we need to fix. I doubt that fireman, policemen and the rest of the crew hate cleaning up messes of tragic accidents. They would all agree and say that the United States must clean off the dirty filth that runs off this country and wipe it clean. These are the reasons that teen driving is so dangerous and unpredictable and why The United States needs to do something about this unbelievable situation. Thank you.