Indiana's Probationary Law

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Indiana's Probationary Law

Why Driver License Probationary Periods on Teenagers of the Age 18 and

Younger are Unjust Restrictions Unless Enforced

Among All New Vehicle Operators

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles on January 1st, 1999 put into affect a new law restricting the rights and privileges of drivers 18 and under to abide by new guidelines and standards that are unjust and blind to the fact of prejudgment towards ones age. The INBMV helps insure that the roads of Indiana are safe and regulated. Helping to create a more functional group.

The INBMV is granted power from the state legislator to amend, reform, restrict, and create new laws to help protect Indianans’ motorist day after day. This power that is granted to the INBMV exist solely for the purpose of road regulations and restrictions. The INBMV was created by the state of Indiana to help control, and regulate with state power, the mass amount of motorist, and their vehicles.

The only limitations that affect their power are occurrence that are not related to drivers, vehicles, and any pedestrian using any type of motorize vehicle on any type of road, path, trail, or any type of travel path used for transit. These are the only parts that the INBMV can rule and regulate due to the restriction of power.

The proper and appropriate way to help regulate and make fair the laws would either be to lift the probationary law, or to amend the law for all new drivers, no matter of age when receiving their drivers license. By amending the law to all new drivers no matter of age it is creating an equal scale towards any type of judgment against or for the drivers. By lifting the law you are removing all factors of new restrictions, and regulations. This also helps ...

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Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles should make the probationary period just by implying it with all new drivers, instead of just new drivers up till the age of 18. The instilling of this will protect everyone from all new drivers, not just drivers who are 18 and under, but those who are not accustomed to our roads, this including new drivers due to their own personal circumstances, first time, immigration, etc… This will help prevent less traffic accidents along with a more organized control over safety on the road, speeding, running of stop signs, etc… Other options would to remove the probationary law, or even putting drivers who achieve a bad record on probation till they achieve a safe standard.

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