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TOUGH TEEN DRIVING LAWS ONLY ANGERING DEATH
October 21 2011
Washington, D.C. – Cars are indisputably one of the most important inventions in human history. The motor vehicle has expanded the world, allowed commerce and communication between people all over the planet, and allowed humanity to grow and evolve in ways we never could have imagined before.
Cars, though, are also dangerous. They are heavy hunks of metal moving at high speeds and put into the wrong hands, specifically young teens, can be deadly. Inexperience twinned with youthful indiscretion and adrenaline has resulted in many tragedies, prompting a lot of changes to the rules governing young drivers.
Unfortunately, a new study has found that instead of preventing fatalities amongst young drivers those tough rules have only delayed the inevitable, simply tainting death until it can bring things back around and get those it had intended to get in the first place.
“There is no doubt that these laws have reduced, dramatically, the number of deaths amongst 16-year old drivers but it has also increased the number of deaths of 18-year old drivers,” said Dr. Scott Marsten who conducted the study. “When you look at the bigger picture across 18- and 19-year-olds, it looks like we’re offsetting those saved crashes. In fact, 75 percent of the fatal crashes we thought we were saving actually just occurred two years later.”
There are a number of possible reasons for the delay, such as younger people being forced to drive with overprotective parents, but it is also possible that death simply finds a way, much like happens in the ‘Final Destination’ films.
“Death inevitably comes for us all, it’s just a matter of time. There are likely a lot of factors at play here but the biggest one is that you simply cannot cheat death. You owe death and it will take you either now or later. There is no way to avoid it completely, and avoiding it may only make it more vigilant in the future,” said Scrape TV Transportation analyst Kenneth King. “Not that it really matters, I mean dead is dead after all, but people shouldn’t rest comfortably thinking that they are safe from the grim reaper just because they turned 18, because they got their full licence. When death wants you, it will get you and there is nothing you can do about that.”
In the ‘Final Destination’ movies teens cheat death through a variety of circumstances only to be wiped out by some other incident shortly afterwards. It’s not believed that the movies are based on real events.
“People like to believe that after a certain point in things they are safe, but death will stalk you, death will get you eventually. You may make it so far but eventually, well there’s simply no way out. Death comes for us all eventually and these people lucky enough to make it to 18 aren’t in the clear, not by a long shot,” continued King. “Death wants what it wants and it will take it whether we like it or not. You can avoid and evade it for a little while, but eventually it will come back and take what it wants, what it desires and there is nothing that laws can do about that.”
Death has never really obeyed the laws.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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