Putting the Breaks on Bad Drivers

With 37,043 fatal crashes in 1999, and 41,611 victims, the “brakes need to be pressed” on bad drivers. (FARS…1). To many people are involved in motor-vehicle accidents each year. The laws on these bad drivers need to be strengthened and enforced in order to protect each other. Driving laws for teens, DWI and DUI, aggressive and reckless driving and speeding is not good enough and enforced enough for the safety of others.
All you have to do as a teenager to obtain your driver’s licenses in the state of Virginia is hold your learners permit for 6 months, pass a written test, and get a few hours of road practice within the school or another program and pass a small road test. This does not prepare the teenagers for driving. They learn nothing about real life situations; how to respond to inclement weather, how to react to other drivers’ actions, and what to do in case of an accident. Many teenagers are ill prepared for driving.
“I don’t think the law should...