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Read the passage.
Which reason could best be supported by the
evidence in this passage?
With car crashes being the leading cause of death
among teenagers, many are in favor of raising the legal
driving age to eighteen. According to the National
Highway Safety Administration, the rate of crashes,
both fatal and nonfatal, for sixteen-year-old drivers is
almost ten times the rate as that of drivers aged thirty
to fifty-nine, as calculated per mile driven. No one
disputes the idea that raising the legal driving age will
create issues and difficulties for many; however, these
issues pale in comparison with the issue of safety.
"The bottom line is that when we look at the research,
raising the driving age saves lives," states Adrian Lund,
president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,
a research group funded by the auto insurance
industry. To date, New Jersey is the only state to raise
the legal driving age to seventeen, and various studies
have shown that the overall rate of teen fatalities linked
Raising the driving age would reinforce the idea that
driving is a privilege.
O Teenagers are not mature enough to drive at the age
of sixteen.
The legal driving age should be raised to eighteen
for safety reasons.
Eighteen-years-olds are better able to sustain the
costs of driving
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