Are seniors or teens safer drivers?
05-21-2010, 11:07 AM
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Are seniors or teens safer drivers?
According to the article, per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely than older drivers to crash.
However, I still hate senior citizen drivers and think they wreak havoc on the roads more so than teens...at least in my own personal experiences.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dr...-may-surprise/1
However, I still hate senior citizen drivers and think they wreak havoc on the roads more so than teens...at least in my own personal experiences.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dr...-may-surprise/1
05-21-2010, 11:24 AM
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Nothing pisses me off more than following some old SOB going 10 miles per hour under the speed limit. I don't care who crashes more.
05-21-2010, 11:31 AM
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I actually wrote a paper on teen drivers for my English class last semester. More teens die in accidents than seniors, but there are more teen drivers than seniors. But an interesting fact I found was that a teen on a cell phone has a worse reaction time than a 70 year old; reaction time is the main reason people think senior drivers are so bad.
05-21-2010, 11:48 AM
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Its because most teens have severe A.D.D. and get distracted easily! Maybe the DMV should give out Ritalin when they get their licenses laugh.gif