mcminty wrote:

lowing wrote:

Stingray24 wrote:

Fair point, I concede.  I forgot about Friday and Saturday nights ... old folks are usually in bed while the teens are still drag racing around the circuit.  If I was a policeman, I'd just sit there with my radar gun and get my monthly quota in one night.
Yup, that is all I am saying, I am not championing old people here, but fair is fair, and if your concern is safety, then you are less safe with a teenage drivers on the road than you are with old people on the road.

To me, all of this sounds like the teenagers here want old people out of their way because old people slow them down. Nothing more.

By the way, what do you think of my solution to teenage immaturity on the road? A trip to the morgue to show them the results of teenage wrecklessness as part of drivers ed. and also a recurrent class until say, 21.
I'll concede that there are times when I think my friends could drive a little more responsibly. But I'm talking about going a little slower, leaving a larger gap between the us and the car in front, and not accelerating so.. aggressively. None of what you were talking about occurs. For reference those things were:

lowing wrote:

NOT drinking and driving, NOT texting, NOT speeding to look cool, NOT getting hign while you drive, NOT show boating for the ladies, however, DOES take some skill and maturity.
Which of those things are illegal in your roads system?


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And Lowing mate, this is what I'm basing MY arguements on. It's a PDF of road statistics from the 12 months proceeding March 2009, put out by the Roads and Traffic Authority - the authority on driving etc for where I live.

If you may, please turn to page 8. These two graphs are about road fatalities. Pretty much speaks for itself..
The only reason the 'young' age groups is lower is due to it only incorporating 4 or 5 years while the other categories incorporate 10 years. You add the 17-20 and 21-25 categories (which I might add is still only 9 years) and the total number of fatalities skyrockets above any other. As for the distribution, I'm a little unsure how to read this but again add the 17-25 groups together and they again have the highest fatalities. What I do like about those statistics is the large (25%+) drop in young driver fatalities over the past 3 years.

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