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AAA Report: Teen Drivers Are More Likely to Kill Others in Fatal Auto Crashes


Posted on Mar 11, 2009

 

 

For every teen driver killed in a crash, almost twice as many other people die.

In February of 2009, American Automobile Association (AAA) Foundation for Traffic Safety produced a report, determining that teen drivers, 15 to 17 years old, are twice as likely to kill people other than themselves in a fatal auto accident. Analyzing the fatalities over the last decade, the AAA determined that out of the total number of the victims in auto crashes nationwide, about one third are teen drivers themselves and two-thirds are passengers of teen drivers, occupants of other vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. In Florida, more than two thirds of victims are people other than a teen driver.

Nationwide, between 1998 and 2007, 28,138 people died in crashes involving teen drivers: slightly more than 10,000 were teen drivers themselves and 17,750 were passengers of teen drivers (8,829 deaths), occupants of other vehicles (6,858 deaths) and non-motorists (2,063). 

In Florida, for the same years, 1,756 people died in crashed involving teen drivers, including 517 of teen drivers themselves, 474 passengers of the teen drivers, 552 occupants of other vehicles and 213 non-motorists.

On a more positive note, the report showed a significant drop in both teen driver deaths and in deaths of others in auto accidents involving teen drivers during the past decade: there was a 35-percent decrease of fatalities between 1998 and 2007 compared to the period of 1988-1997.

In its report, AAA encourages parents to talk to their children about safe driving, to limit the children's driving to daytime, and to require them to attend a driving school.

For more information, see:

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090228/ARTICLES/902270915 

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