Teens at the wheel: freedom or danger?

Students gathered at their low power cars that can be driven from 15 years. Teens said they were just sitting at the wheel as soon as they got the right. Before leaving the street, you need to pass the theory exam at Regitra, but up to 18 years of age neither internship training nor driving tests are optional.

« I have been driving since June last June, with rights since the age of 15, now done from the age of 16, this is nonsense.

« I was 16, now I drive every day. Fear when you make you, understand Kaunas, feel, decline, » said the driver Jonas Zakarauskas.

Students do not hide – they learned how to drive by listening to the advice of parents, brothers, sisters or friends.

« My sister is older, she drove, I learned from her and I sat a year later, » said Rusnė Sinkevičiūtė.

« I just learned myself, I drove and learned on the street, » said another interviewer.

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There was a proposal to allow teenagers to acquire AM category only from 16, but the internship exam would remain optional. Specialists do not agree with this – collect signatures and offer to leave for age, but to introduce mandatory practice training.

« There is a discussion in the Seimas to introduce practical driving training, as with other categories. The responsible parents do it themselves and hire an instructor. Only a professional instructor can teach driving features, » said Rimantas Stapulionis, head of the Youth Driving Academy.

Mandatory practice is necessary.

« He drives to the street, the car is like a weapon. With it you can make trouble. It is not responsible for administrative liability – only from the age of 16, » said Virginijus Bakanas, a Rigveda driving instructor.

R. Stapulionis says that due to lack of practice, teenagers often get into accidents. Although statistically, 18-25 -year -olds are most at risk, adolescents usually occur due to negligence. Although the driver is not 16, the parents are responsible for the accident.

« The accidents are very creepy, even those roofs, when they underestimate the dynamics, the braking distance, the peculiarities of practical driving, » said the head of the Youth Driving Academy.

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Young people recognize that traffic accidents occur.

« There are all kinds of situations, there were two accidents minimal, but everything is great – life is easier, » she said.

The biggest mistakes of young drivers are negligence.

« Young people are unable to see danger, they are unable to appreciate it. They didn’t have it in life. They look at the phone with their parents, they don’t see what’s going on on the road, » said Rigveda’s driving instructor.

Instructors have to correct bad driving habits when teenagers learn to drive themselves.

« That firmness – again, people are accustomed to running, they have no punishment, they are not afraid to punish him. The number of cars is increasing, the problem remains huge, » Bakan said.

Organizers promise to visit 100 schools and collect over 100,000. signatures to get the AM category from 15.