Question

to enforce a curfew, then officials should provide one to ensure teens are home by a reasonable hour. adolescents and young adults take more risks than any other age group, and one indication of this is the troubling statistics surrounding teens and driving. in 2015, only sixty - one percent of high school drivers reported always wearing a seat belt when riding with a passenger. the risk of a fatal accident is three times as high for drivers ages sixteen to nineteen as for drivers over the age of twenty. and dangers only increase at night. no matter the age, the fatality rate jumps threefold for nighttime drivers in car accidents. for teens specifically, the hours between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. account for more than forty percent of deaths from car accidents. this indicates to some that a law keeping teens off the road late at night is a positive safety measure. what is the author’s main claim or argument? law enforcement should only enforce teen curfews in densely populated areas. legal curfews should exist only when parents do not administer a curfew. enforcing teen curfews will lead to growing resentment and distrust of the police force. legal curfews for teens are an unnecessary violation of individual liberties and should be abolished.

Explanation:

The passage presents statistics about teen - driving risks, especially at night, to support the idea of a legal curfew for safety.

Answer:

None of the above options are correct. The author's main claim is that a law keeping teens off the road late at night (a legal curfew for teens) is a positive safety measure.