This means that if a teenager gets into an accident and it is his fault, the blame falls on his parents (the minimum driving age should be raised to 18) . This would be an advantage in raising the driving age to 18 because then the teenager would be considered an adult and parents would no longer be held responsible for their children's actions while driving. In August 2014 a father was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison because his 16-year-old daughter hit another car and killed 3 teenagers. (Nobody). She was unharmed, other than a few scrapes and scrapes. The parents of the slain teenagers said she got off too easily and that she really should have been the one to be charged. (Nobody). Although the father had nothing to do with the accident, he was the one who had to deal with the consequences.