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Major Risks for Teen Drivers

Speeding

• Among male drivers between 15 and 20 years of age who were involved in fatal crashes in 2005, 38% were speeding at the time of the crash and 24% had been drinking.
  (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2006)
• In 2006, 39% of the fatalities of 15-20 year-olds involved speeding or going too fast for the driving condition.
  (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2006)
• Teens are more likely than older drivers to speed and allow shorter headways (the distance from the front of one vehicle to the front of the next). The presence of male teenage passengers increases the likelihood of these risky driving behaviors among teen male drivers.
  (Simons-Morton, 2005)
• If you double your speed - say from 30 mph to 60 mph - your braking distance does not become twice as long. It becomes four times as far.
  (Drive and Stay Alive, 2004)
• According to researches at San Diego State University, teen drivers have an unrealistic view of safe driving behavior.
  Young drivers who were surveyed between January and December 2002 believed they were speeding if they were driving around 90 mph.
  (San Diego State University, 2002)