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- 1. Drivers aged 16 to 19 years of age have the highest average annual crash and traffic violation rates of any other age group.
- 2. Compared with other age groups, teens have the lowest rate of seat belt use.
- 3. In 2008, half of teen deaths from motor vehicle crashes occurred between 3 p.m. and midnight and 56% occurred on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
- 4. Hand-held cell phone use is highest among 16- to 24-year-olds. Almost 50% of all drivers between the ages of 16 and 24 are texting while driving.
- 5. Teen drivers are 4x more likely than adults to get into car crashes or near crash events directly related to talking on a cell phone or texting.
- 6. Texting while driving is about 6 times more likely to result in an accident than driving while intoxicated.
- 7. For every 6 seconds of drive time, a driver sending or receiving a text message spends 4.6 of those seconds with their eyes off the road. This makes texting the most distracting of all cell phone related tasks.
- 8. Speeding is the biggest culprit among Teens and leads to the most fatalities and of course tickets.
- 9. In a national survey conducted in 2007, nearly 3 out of 10 teens reported that, within the previous month, they had ridden with a driver who had been drinking alcohol. One in ten reported having driven after drinking alcohol within the same one-month period.
- 10. Talking on a cell phone while driving can make a young driver's reaction time as slow as that of a 70-year-old.
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- More than 1 in 3 teen deaths result from operating a motor vehicle.
- Statistics show that 16- and 17-year-old driver death rates increase with each additional passenger in a vehicle (IIHS).
- 16-year-olds are 3 times more likely to die in a motor vehicle crash than the average of all drivers.
- Despite the risks, the majority of teen drivers ignore cell phone driving restrictions.
- 48% of young Americans from 12-17 say they've been in a car while the driver was texting.
- 52% of 16- and 17-year-old teen drivers confess to making and answering cell phone calls on the road. 34% admit to text messaging while driving.
- Over 60% of American teens admit to risky driving.
- Each year, 21% of fatal car crashes involving teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were the result of cell phone usage. This result has been expected to grow as much as 4% every year.
- Teens say that texting is their number one driver distraction.
- 4 out of every 5 accidents (80%) are attributed to distracted drivers. In contrast, drunk drivers account for roughly 1 out of 3 (33%) of all accidents nationally.
- Studies have found that texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
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- - More than 1 in 3 teen deaths result from operating a motor vehicle.
- - 16-year-olds are 3 times more likely to die in a motor vehicle crash than the average of all drivers.
- - Over 60% of American teens admit to risky driving.
- - Speeding is the biggest culprit among Teens and leads to the most fatalities and of course tickets.
- - Teen drivers are 4x more likely than adults to get into car crashes or near crash events directly related to talking on a cell phone or texting.
- - Compared with other age groups, teens have the lowest rate of seat belt use.
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