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Teen Crash Risk Highest First 3 Months After Getting Driver’s License

Teenage drivers are eight times more likely to be involved in a collision or near miss during the first three months after getting a driver’s license, compared to the previous three months on a learner’s permit, suggests a study led …

Parents’ Safe Driving Behavior Can Help Cut Teen Crashes: Survey

Travelers released the results of its Parent/Teen Safe Driving Survey, which reveal that teens who feel their parents are good role models as drivers are half as likely to have been in an accident. The survey also found that the …

Inexperienced Teen Drivers Easily Fall Into Distraction, Accidents

Teens may begin their driving habits with great caution, but as months behind the wheel pass, they begin to multi-task at higher frequency rates – dialing cell phones, eating, and talking to passengers, etc. – and therefore greatly raise their …

Head Injuries Are Most Common Injury in Teen Crashes

Among the more than 55,000 teen drivers and their passengers seriously injured each year in 2009 and 2010, 30 percent suffered head injuries, including concussion, skull fractures and traumatic brain injuries (TBI), according to a new teen driver safety report …