What causes car crashes among teens?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that research has identified factors contributing to teen crashes. The top two are inexperience and immaturity. Add other factors such as excessive speed, failure to wear a seat belt, and distractions like cell phone use, loud music, and other teen passengers—you’ve got the potential for a dangerous crash.3 What is the solution? “A study of issues affecting young drivers, released in December 2000 by George Mason University and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, identified parental involvement as the most important factor in teaching teens safe driving behaviors,” says HSLDA Senior Counsel Christopher Klicka. Klicka also notes that more recently, in September 2006, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Status Report advised Americans that traditional driver’s education does not provide the intended benefits of producing a safer driver. This report suggests that the way to lower crash potential is to gradually rel
