Why the Legal Driving Age Should be Raised "I wonder where John is?" Sandra Tucker thought, checking her watch. It was nearly 6 p.m., time for John to be home for supper. But her son never made it to the table. Driving home from his after-school job in Hartwell, Georgia, 16-year-old John had been having a little fun with a teenager in another car. "I hate to say racing, but that is what they were doing," Sandra says, when John plowed into a tree at 85 mph. "I had no idea he'd ever do anything like that." After all, John was in the National Honor Society and was listed in Who's Who Among American High School Students. "When it happened, I wa