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

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Many are of the opinion that raising the
age
 at which people can get driving licenses is the best way to make
roads
 safer.
Although
this
 will help prevent some
accidents
due to
 inexperience, I strongly feel that it is more important to focus on safer
roads
 through improved urban planning. The main justification that proponents of raising the
age
 at which people can drive will often cite
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the number of
accidents
 attributed to inexperience. In the USA, most teenagers get their driving
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 around
age
 16. There are a couple of factors that can lead
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 more
accidents
 than someone in their 20s. The first is that they simply do
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 have as much road experience. They have only dealt with a limited number of experiences and are more likely to make poor decisions at pivotal moments. The other
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reason is that many American teenagers begin drinking alcohol around
this
age
 even though the legal
age
 is 21. Teenagers are notoriously irresponsible and they have not developed strategies for handling alcohol when driving. All people, when drunk, are dangerous but it is especially dangerous if they are inexperienced in terms of both alcohol and driving. Even though these are valid points, I do not think they outweigh the number of
accidents
 that poor urban planning and infrastructure cause. There will always be other causes that include young drivers, driving
while
 under the influence and road rage but the only factor that plays a hand in nearly all
accidents
 relates to how the
roads
 have been planned. Take the city of New Orleans
for example
. The urban planners in New Orleans constructed the
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city with almost entirely one-way streets.
This
 may make it inconvenient at times but it has
also
 resulted in one of the lowest accident rates in the USA. It has
also
 allowed for the construction of parallel streetcars that have
also
 greatly reduced the total calamity. Cities around the world have replicated
this
 approach by increasing the total one-way streets and working streetcars into the city plan and
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 reciprocal declines in vehicular
accidents
. I believe that urban planning, despite not being a well-publicized cause, is the main source of most casualties around the world and raising the legal driving
age
 would have little real impact. The more cities that begin to focus their attention on the causes, rather than the symptoms, of a mishap the safer our
roads
 will be for ourselves and future generations.
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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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