Will Raising the Driving Age Prevent Accidents?

The Insurance Institute for Highway safety feels it will. According to www.freep.com, "Drivers age 15 to 20 are the deadliest age group on the roads, and now a safety organization is trying to drum up support for bumping up the driving age in U.S. states to 17 or 18, to reduce the carnage on America’s roadways."

The safety organization is the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and they have recently released a "report encouraging higher driving ages at a conference of the Governors Highway Safety Association in Scottsdale, Ariz. The institute notes that most of Europe as well as China, Japan, Russia and Brazil allow people to start driving at age 18. The agency, funded by the insurance industry, says several U.S. states have tried but failed to boost the age to 17 or 18."

Some feel the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is wrong and experience, not maturity, is what makes a better driver and causes less accidents. What do you think?