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Teen Driver Statistics
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) Report – Teens at Risk
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2004/809918.pdf
- Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens in the United States.
- In 2003, 5,240 teens were killed in passenger-vehicle crashes, and 458,000 teens were injured.
- In 2003, the fatality rate (per 100,000 population) in motor vehicle crashes for 16-to-20 year-olds was more than twice the rate than for all other ages combined (25.7 versus 11.4 respectively).
- In 2004, 7,898 15- to 20-year-old drivers were involved in fatal crashes. Driver fatalities for this age group increased by 5 percent between 1994 and 2004. For young males, driver fatalities rose by 1 percent, compared with a 15-percent increase for young females.
- From 1997 to 2003, the fatality rate (per 100,000 population) in motor vehicle crashes for 16-to-20-year-olds was approximately seven times the rate for 8-to-15-year-olds.
- During 2003, a teen died in a traffic crash an average of once every hour on weekends (weekends are defined as 6 p.m. Friday through 5:59 a.m. Monday) and nearly once every two hours during the week.
NHTSA Report – Teenagers and Seatbelt Use
- Sixty-three percent of the fatally injured 16-to-20-year-old passenger vehicle occupants were not wearing seatbelts, compared to 55 percent for adults 21 or older.
- Drivers are less likely to use seatbelts when they have been drinking. In 2003, 65 percent of the young drivers (15 to 20 years old) of passenger vehicles involved in fatal crashes who had been drinking were unrestrained. Of the young drivers who had been drinking and were killed in crashes, 74 percent were unrestrained.
- In 2003, 34 percent (1,782) of fatally injured teens were completely or partially ejected from a passenger vehicle, compared with 27 percent of those fatally injured for all ages combined.
- Male teens are less likely to wear safety belts than female teens. In 2003, a greater number of males (7.7 percent) reported they were likely to rarely or never use safety belts when driving compared with females (2.8 percent). More males (26.4 percent) than females (23.6 percent) also reported that they had not worn their safety belts within the past week.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) – Crash Statistics http://www.hwysafety.org/research/fatality_facts/teenagers.html
- A total of 5,610 teenagers ages 13-19 died in motor vehicle crashes in 2004. This is 36 percent fewer than in 1975, and about 2 percent fewer than in 2003.
- About 2 out of every 3 teenagers killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2004 were males.
- Since 1975 teenage motor vehicle crash deaths have decreased more among males (44 percent) than among females (13 percent).
- Crashes are largely caused by immaturity combined with driving inexperience.
- Crashes involving young drivers typically are single-vehicle crashes, primarily run-off-the-road crashes that involve driver error and/or speeding.
- Crashes often occur when other young people are in the vehicle with the young driver, so teenagers are disproportionately involved in crashes as passengers as well as drivers.
IHS – Teen Driving Requirements and Graduated Licensing from IIHS
http://www.highwaysafety.org/laws/state_laws/grad_license.html
- Graduated licensing delays full licensure to allow beginners to obtain their initial experience under lower risk conditions.
- There are three stages: a minimum supervised learner's period, an intermediate license (once the driving test is passed) that limits unsupervised driving in high-risk situations, and a full-privilege driver's license available after completion of the first two stages. Beginners must remain in each of the first two stages for set minimum time periods.
- Forty-four U.S. states currently have all three stages, but the systems vary in strength. 15 states do not require any minimum amount of supervised driving in the learning stage.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH) http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/teen_passengers.cfm
- Teenage drivers were more likely to tailgate and exceed the speed limit if there was a teenage male passenger in the front seat.
- Male teenagers were less likely to tailgate or exceed the speed limit when a teenage female was in the front passenger seat.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety – "Teenage Passengers in Motor Vehicle Crashes; A Summary of Current Research," December 2001. http://www.iihs.org/research/topics/pdf/teen_passengers.pdf
- The presence of passengers strongly increases crash risk for teenage drivers; the more passengers the greater the risk.
- The crashes of youthful drivers are more likely to involve a single vehicle, driver error, and speeding.
- In 2000, 63 percent of the deaths of 13-19-year-old passengers occurred when other teenagers were driving.
- The highest proportions of teenage passengers killed in vehicles with teenage drivers were at ages 16 (73 percent), 15 (72 percent), and 17 (68 percent).
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