Teen Driving

• In 2005, teens accounted for 12 percent of motor vehicle deaths and only 10 percent of the US population.
• Fatal crashes involving young drivers typically involve a single vehicle plus driver error and/or speeding.
• The crashes often occur when other young people are in vehicles driven by teens.
• Of the 4,440 teenagers killed in passenger vehicle crashes last year, 45 percent were passengers.
• Sixty-one percent of these deaths occurred in crashes in which another teenager was driving.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Nov. 21, 2006

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