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Kansas City Teen Drivers and Graduated Driver's License Laws

At some point, parents of teen drivers have to run the car keys over to their children and trust that the hours spent behind the wheel and at the kitchen table is enough. Hours and hours of safety tips and instructions have to go a long way once teenagers are able to drive on their own. Kansas City parents can give their young drivers an advantage by teaching them the right ways to drive with other youth in the car.

Missouri law states that new drivers can only have one unrelated passenger under the age of 21 in the vehicle for the first six months after they reserve their first driver’s license. The rule is part of the graduated driver’s license system used in the state. Young drivers begin with a permit at age 15, in which they can drive with a parent or a guardian in the passenger’s seat. The teen is supposed to receive 40 hours of driving instruction in the year before he or she returns for an intermediate license.

Once the teen passes the driving test and pays the fee, he or she is issued an intermediate license. Under this license the teen’s passenger list is restricted to one nonrelated person under age 21. This continues for 6 months. Is it necessary?

You be the judge. Consider the following statistics and decide for yourself:

1. 350,000 teenagers were injured in car crashes in 2009. 3,000 were injured fatally.
2. Mile for mile teens are 4 times more likely to be in a car crash than adults.
3. Teens are more likely to be in a car wreck if there are other teens (and only other teens) in the vehicle.
4. That rate increases as the number of teens on the vehicle increases.
5. The presence of other teenagers in the car driven by a teenager increases the chances the teen will drive recklessly.
6. Teenage drivers are more likely to underestimate the danger of a driving situation than older drivers. They are also more likely to misjudge breaking distance and to drive at higher rates of speed than older drivers.
7. Teens are more likely to crash in the first year after they get their license than at any other time.

Should the law restrict the number of teenaged passengers a novice driver can have in the vehicle? The statistics say that the measure is not only necessary, it is life saving. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the sue of graduated driver’s license programs in a state can reduce the death rate for 16-year-old drivers by as much as 40 percent.

Serious injuries happen every year in this country because of dangerous or reckless driving by drivers of any age. If you or someone you love has been injured in a car accident, contact the Kansas City car accident attorneys at Kansas City Accident Injury Attorneys for help. Call 888-348-2616 for more information about a free initial consultation.

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