Is there a correlation between teenage driving and traffic crashes?
• Yes. A significant percentage of young drivers are involved in traffic crashes and are twice as likely as adult drivers to be in a fatal crash. Sixteen-year-old drivers have crash rates three times greater than 17-year-old drivers, five times greater than 18-year-old drivers, and twice the rate of 85-year-old drivers. Approximately thirteen percent of all drivers involved in fatal crashes are teens. • In 2008, 12 percent of all drivers involved in fatal crashes were between the ages of 15 and 20 years old. Driver fatalities for this age group increased by five percent between 1994 and 2008. For young men, driver fatalities rose by five percent, compared with a three percent increase for young women. • In 2008, about 3,500 teens in the U.S. aged 15-19 were killed and more than 350,000 were treated in emergency departments of motor-vehicle crash related injuries. Does ACEP support graduated licensing? Yes because it will save lives and prevent injuries. All beginner drivers are inexper
