Have you ever seen a teenager driving their car with one hand on the wheel and the other hand wrapped around their cell phone with their thumb frantically plunking on their keyboard? It happens all the time. Theres no discipline when it comes to teens and everything has to be taken care of right now. It cant wait until you get out of the car. Texting while driving is one of the leading causes of teen car accidents in the United States.
The texting-while-driving epidemic is just the tip of the iceberg. The rest of the statistics on teenagers and accidents are just as staggering. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, for all people who get in accidents, theres a four to one ratio between teenagers and older drivers respectively. That means people from the age of sixteen to nineteen are four times more likely to be the vehicle operator in a car crash than people who are older than them.