By Leftlane Staff
Tuesday, Feb 21st, 2006 @ 11:51 am

Florida is considering raising the driving age from 16 to 17, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Thousands of Florida 16-year-olds are killed or injured in car crashes every year, a statistic that has spurred at least one legislator to call for increasing the state’s driving age. “That extra year, the kids need it,” said Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton. “Their brain hasn’t matured. Sometimes I relate this to trying to pour a gallon bottle of milk into a pint and it just overflows — they can’t take in all that information.”

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