Kara+Oral

My Speech
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// **__My Speech!__** // // In New Zealand once you are 15 it takes two years to get your drivers licence. It all starts with a test, a test all about your road rules. Once you pass the test you get six months to learn to drive //. // You can only drive during daylight hours and you have to be with someone who has had their full licence for more than two years. After six months you can take another test but this time it’s a driving test. Pass it and then you have 18 months of driving by yourself but only during daylight hours. Once the 18 months is up is up you can get your full licence. // // Driving can be dangerous if it is put in the wrong hands, it can put precious lives at risk. New Zealand should do all they can to stop this happening but they are not doing anything at all. Innocent lives are at risk. Its not fare. // // In most western countries the driving age is 18 which would benefit us all. We should follow by example. There are many reasons the driving age should be raised. // // Most crashes are caused by young drivers so by raising the driving age we should reduce the amount of crashes, deaths and accidents on the road. This and this alone should prove we need to raise the driving age. // // Also the less cars on the road the better for everyone. It would reduce cars in intersections and roundabouts which would be safer. Less cars would also be better for our earth, we would be using less of New Zealand’s natural resources // // Raising the driving age would reduce cars by maybe 2% even though it does not sound like much it still would help a lot. Finally, driving contains a high level of maturity and quick decisions making you cant tell me every 15 year old have those qualities. // // All drivers need those qualities. Although we can’t stop people driving just because they don’t have those qualities but we can reduce the amount of people like that on the road. // // Over all raising the driving age benefits us all in some way or another. What’s stopping us from raising the driving age if it’s what New Zealand need? // // Other countries have proved that raising the driving age is the right thing to do so why don’t we follow? 15 is way too young. Raising the driving age is the obvious thing to do to make New Zealand’s roads safer. //

