Driving is a privilege rather than a right. Driving brings great obligations. Before giving your young driver the keys, define clear expectations and consequences for breaking them. Continue reading the article and get a legal consultation to help you.
- Alcohol-free driving. Prescription medications can impair driving.
- Ride with sober drivers only.
- Always buckle up, whether you are driving or riding.
- Do not text and drive. Call, text, or post later.
- Obey traffic signals and signs.
- Drive safely. Speed depends on congestion, road, and the climate.
- No drowsiness. Sleeping and driving are equally deadly. If driver awareness is questionable, arrange alternative transportation.
- Limit teens. Teen drivers with adolescent passengers are more likely to have an accident.
- As a young driver matures, these regulations may change. It is crucial to have clear rules and rewards.
Why Do Teen Drivers Need Rules?
Teen drivers’ safety, responsibility, culpability, and trust can be improved by setting guidelines. Teen driver rules are essential for various reasons:
- Safety: Teenagers’ inexperience and dangerous practices like distracted driving make them more likely to get into car accidents. Rules decrease these dangers and make them safer on the road.
- Responsibility: Teen drivers must learn responsibility and accountability. Families may teach their kids to drive responsibly by setting rules and punishments.
- Liability: As legal guardians, parents are responsible for their adolescent children’s driving accidents. Parents can prevent accidents and decrease their culpability by enforcing driving regulations.
- Trust: Parents can build trust with their teens by creating boundaries and enforcing consequences and rewards.
- Gradual Freedom: Teens can gradually decrease rules as they develop driving experience and responsibility.
Teen Driving: Parents’ Guide
National Teen Driver Safety Week takes place October 15–21, 2023. Due to the perils of inexperienced young drivers, Bubalo Law PLC endorses this safety awareness effort. We give safety tips for your young driver as you start this new route.
Statistics support parents’ concerns about teen drivers:
- Motor vehicle accidents kill 15–19-year-olds most often.
- Due to inexperience, distracted driving, and speeding, teen drivers crash more often.
- Alcohol-related crashes are more likely to kill teens.
- Alcohol causes roughly 20% of teen driver fatalities.
- Nearly half of fatal young drivers were not wearing seatbelts.
- Nearly 30% of teen driving fatalities are caused by speeding.
- Passengers in juvenile drivers’ cars increase collision fatalities.
- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are when most teen driving fatalities occur.
What additional measures can families take to protect teen drivers?
- Model safe driving. Your teenager will copy your driving regardless of what you do or claim.
- Seatbelts are mandatory.
- Drive safely. Do not eat, talk, or drive.
- Consider installing phone notification-blocking software on your teenage driver’s phone.
- Do not buy your first-time driver a sports car. Speed and inexperience can lead to disaster.
- Restrict your adolescent driver’s passengers and driving time.
- Drive with your teen or take lessons.
- Talk to your teen about safe driving. Keep the conversation going about safe driving, expectations, and penalties.
