Teen Driving Safety - AAA Centers of Excellence

CENTER OVERVIEW: TEEN DRIVING SAFETY

Motor vehicle crashes are by far the leading cause of death for young people in the U.S., claiming the lives of more 16, 17, and 18-year-olds than the next five leading causes of death combined: homicides, suicides, drowning, poisonings, cancer, and heart disease. There are more 18-year-old drivers involved in fatal crashes than drivers of any other single age, despite the fact that far fewer miles are driven by 18-year-olds than by, for example, 40-year-olds. Teenage drivers are not only dangerous to themselves, either. For every teenage driver killed in a crash, two more people -- their passengers, drivers of other vehicles, and pedestrians -- also perish in their crashes.

TEEN DRIVING SAFETY NEWS

April 15, 2009 Parent Tips for Safer Teen Drivers

The facts are alarming. Traffic crashes are the leading cause of fatalities for teens accounting for 44% of deaths. A teenager's risk of being in a car crash is at a lifetime high in their first 12 to 24 ...

April 15, 2009 Teen Crashes – Everyone is at Risk

When we consider all crashes involving 15 to 17 year-old drivers we find that, on the average, nearly two individuals are killed for every teen driver killed. A recent AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study analyzed data on fatal motor ...

November 5, 2008 New Tool for Teen Drivers!

The AAA Foundation and AAA Clubs have partnered to make available the award-winning Driver-ZED DVD and "Teaching Your Teen to Drive". Driver-ZED is an interactive DVD that helps teens learn to identify and correctly respond to risk. "Teaching Your Teen ...

July 15, 2008 What do we know about teen driving?

Everything we know about why young drivers are at such great risk behind the wheel points to two major factors: they are generally immature, and they lack experience driving. Unfortunately, the bulk of the evidence suggests that traditional driver education ...

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TRAFFIC FACT

There are more 18-year-old drivers involved in fatal crashes than drivers of any other single age.

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