Commission Wants Costa Rica Minimum Driving Age At 21

QCR – The Comisión Costarricense de Cooperación con la Unesco (Costa Rican Commission for Cooperation with Unesco), a commission attached to the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) considers the minimum age for driving in Costa Rica should be 21.
Commission President Rocio Solis said that the proposal to reform the Ley de Transito (Traffic Law) is based on different researches that show that young people under the age of 21 do not have enough neurological maturity to make decisions and that leads them to cause traffic accidents.
“This is not a whimsical request, there is a series of investigations where it has been shown that the majority of traffic accidents among young people occur because there is not enough maturity, decision making is more impulsive and in

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