Some people say that the best way to improve road safety is to increase the minimum legal age for driving cars or riding motor bikes. To what extent do you agree or disagree

Road

accidents are upsurging at an alarming rate across the world. While a few people believe that increasing the legal

age

limit of driving a four or two-wheeler will help to improve safety, others defer the aforementioned view. I understand that

this

method will solve the problem to a little extent.

However

, I think there are other critical factors

such

as controlling the drink and drive, enhancing the

road

infrastructure that will help to eradicate the indicated issue to a greater extent. Curtailing the incidents through strict policies like increasing the legal

age

to issue a driving license has shown some positive improvements. To be more precise, issuing penalties as a consequence for children who violate the

age

limit law was one of the best methods to introduce. Imprisonment of parents for 14 days,

for instance

, was a great rule implemented by Delhi police, whose children violate

this

law.

Nonetheless

, there were some situations where we could still see incidents by children as there was no proper surveillance. I honestly believe that there are two other important methods to be taken into consideration to eradicate the problem from the root level. Primarily, strengthening the drink and drive law by the government authorities should be a mandate at

this

juncture, which absolutely controls the number of accidents. As per the Indian

road

authority statistics, 47% of crashes,

for instance

, are recorded because of driving after alcohol consumption. Apart from that, the lack of infrastructure across the major cities is another reason for detrimental

road

safety. Widening roads, closing all potholes, installing

road

direction signs at required places,

for example

, are some of the improvements to be considered by authorities to control the incidents. To conclude, some citizens of society think that increasing the lower

age

limit

further

will ensure

road

safety. While I agree, the above-mentioned method has shown a beneficial impact to a certain level, there are other critical ways that will make sure to reduce fatal accidents

such

as stopping the driving after liquor consumption by stringent legislation enforcement and improving the

road

infrastructure.