What are the current implications of these population numbers for traffic fatalities?
And this follows through in crashes where the driver has been drinking? Yes. We have been making progress in reducing the rate of collisions with drinking involvement at all age groups and for all drivers. But we seem to be losing ground in recent years. And again, there are sharp increases for these target age groups. How does this dovetail with what we already know about these younger drivers? It is well-known that males have fatal collisions of all types at much higher rates than females. We still don’t completely understand why. And the rate of fatal collisions peaks at these age groups, but what’s interesting is that it drops for the older end of the age group and continues to fall rapidly. Some questions I’d like to study are: Why is the rate so high for the younger age? Why does it drop so quickly? And is there any way to speed up this drop? What do you see when you look at fatal crashes where the driver had been drinking? In a substantial portion of the fatal crashes, the drive
