What Works to Keep Teenage Drivers Safer?
It appears that changing state driver’s licensing rules for teenagers is helping keep more teenagers alive. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a non-profit auto insurer supported research organization, says the rate of crash deaths among teenagers, aged 16 to 19, dropped 43 percent between 1975 and 2007. Crash deaths dropped 30 percent for 20 to 29 year olds during the same time period. US News says the graduated teen driver licensing laws, “slow down the licensing process, so that teens are older and have more experience before they receive unrestricted driving privileges. The laws often limit teens’ exposure to high-risk conditions, like driving at night, and many of these laws also forbid novice drivers from having more than one other teenage passenger in the car. IIHS research also finds the graduated licensing requirements helped reduce the crash rate among 15 to 17-year-olds by 7 percent. It says that restricting teen driving after 9 p.m. In some states, cut fatal
