California Roads are About to Get a Little BIt Safer

"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
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> Putting the brakes on unsafe teen driving
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> JENNIFER MUIR
> Register columnist
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> Part of Geoff Bowen wishes he had been born a year earlier. Another
> part of him thinks it wouldn't matter, anyway.
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> See, Bowen is 15. He's had his learner's permit since September. He
> will take a test to get his driver's license in March.
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> But Bowen will be driving under stricter terms than he expected. A
> state law took effect Jan.1 that requires new drivers to hang up their
> keys an hour earlier and prevents them from chauffeuring peer
> passengers for a year.
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> The law requires 16- and 17-year-olds to stay off the road from 11
> p.m. to 5 a.m. during their first year as a licensed driver.
> Previously, the curfew began at midnight.
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I got my license at 14. Prior to turning 16, there was supposedly a curfew.
HOWEVER, I don't remember what the curfew time was, as it was unenforceable
and routinely ignored. You were allowed to legally drive after curfew if
you were driving to/from a school function or to/from work. So OF COURSE if
you were 15 and got pulled over in the middle of the night, you were on your
way home from work. (whether you were or not) -Dave