How are new laws being passed to reduce teen crashes related to peer pressure in the car?

Question

How are new laws being passed to reduce teen crashes related to peer pressure in the car?

Answer 1

When your friends are in the car with you, and it is snowing like heck and the roads are unsafe to drive anyway, and a few of your friends say you can go faster, that there is peer pressure and 9 times out of 10, the driver (you) loses control of the vehicle and you are then involved in a multi-car pile up and you and your friends are critically injured or there are some fatalities.  Ohio passed a law allowing only 1 other teen in the car with you.  I am glad Ohio passed that law too.  Your teen drivers are inexperienced as it is, and peer pressure usually involves life and death situations.

Answer 2

By limiting the number of passengers a new driver can carry in the car.

Answer 3

Sorry, teens these days need so much attention because they are never taught right and wrong anymore! Seems to be the norm to give them all they ask for and they'll "BE GOOD" WRONG!!!! I'm glad I grew up when a slap on the head meant  I shouldn't do that again, or sending a kid to their room was a bad thing. Teens need to do some thinking when it comes to responsibility, a parent says "NO" it's "NO" Nuff said! PEER pressure is a sad way of saying " I can't make my own decisions" Please look at what is wrong with this picture, 5 kids die in a accident when they were supposed to be straight  A student and out late after some party they lied about going to. Teens behind a wheel....say that again...... slowly ......TEENS BEHIND THE WHEEL! Parents move out to these posh suburbs where nothing is down the street anymore, everyone needs to be taken by car or given a car to get to some sport that they never wanted to be on or some mall that they get caught stealing in. NO one has the answer because its not their problem till its their kid killed. No teen driving is the answer here. NONE!!!!!

Answer 4

They don't have to be, really.  There is a correlation between having a carload of friends and death.  It doesn't matter what is going on in the car, except for the dying.  The new laws are related to statistics.

Many people think that not wearing seat belts is a factor, but honestly, it doesn't matter what the factors are.

Answer 5

I agree with Johnny, teens smoke, take drugs, have unprotected s*x, drive like their late everyday and ride with drunk drivers, not because they think they are invulnerable or haven't thought about the risks but because the parents don't care as much as they did years ago.

A good slap across the head or a belt on the rear-end did more for us and there were less accidents and peer pressure, there was none.