Safe Driving BACKGROUND AND STATISTICS Driving is an essential part of American life. Driving a private vehicle provides a freedom of mobility that allows for changes in plans and routine. Driving can be fun or hectic, business-related or recreational. But most importantly driving CAN BE, and every year IS, fatal for almost 50,000 Americans. Nationally there are approximately 18.1 auto-related deaths per 100,000 people for all ages; but when these figures are broken down into age groups one …showed first 75 words of 585 total…

…showed last 75 words of 585 total…the state to suspend the license until the teenager is 18. (In many states the parent must sign for a teenager under 18 to obtain a driver's license. At any time before the 18th birthday a parent can refuse responsibility and the state will take the license.) The inconvenience of a few months of extra training is little to give up in the face of a possible ruined life or no life at all. SAFE DRIVING ROCKS!!!!!!!