BOISE - Every 90 minutes, another American teen dies in a car accident. That's nearly 5,000 a year. In Idaho, drivers 19 and younger are the most likely to crash. A new study suggests the best fix it is to raise the driving age.

Some teen drivers will be the first to admit, changing the driving age might not be that bad an idea.

"A few of my friends totaled their cars within the few first weeks they got their license," said Daniel Olson, a high school senior.

"You don't pay attention to it as much when you're younger cause you're just like yeah I have my license let's drive," said Natosha Page, a high school senior.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety claims their new study proves raising the driving age to 17 or even 18 could reduce the number of deaths.

According to the Idaho Transportation Department, last year Idaho teens 15 to 19 made up 6% of licensed drivers, but they accounted for nearly 15% of drivers involved deadly or serious injury crashes.

"I would not trust a lot of my friends to drive me around," said 16 year old Kevin Russell, who got his license a year ago.

Kevin said he knows how important a license is to teens. He depends on his to get to school.

"I have to commute from Eagle to Boise everyday once or twice," he said.

"With him going to downtown especially it helps a lot to have him be able to drive," said Michelle Russell, Kevin's mother.

Kevin's not the only teen who's taken the burden off his parents. 16 year old Kaylie Borden and her twin sister have done the same.

"We drive everywhere. We bring our brother places. We drive to dance class. We drive to school everyday," Kaylie said.

These teens said they're responsible, but plenty of their peers aren't. They said the best solution is to keep the driving age the same, just prepare drivers better.

"Maybe offer a more difficult test, maybe a more difficult class than drivers ed, more hours of driving required," said Daniel Olson.

New Jersey is the only state that requires drivers to be at least 17. Once the state made that change, deaths dropped dramatically.