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Search the web for accurate information on these driving practices/requirements for young drivers and driving on the job.

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An average of nine teens ages 16-19 were killed every day from motor vehicle injuries. 2,739 drivers ages 15-20 were killed and an additional 228,000 were injured in crashes. A total of 4,054 teens between the ages of 13-19 died in car accidents. 81% of teens killed in car accidents were passengers.

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Teen Driver Car Accident Statistics & Facts

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Before you hand over the car keys to your teenager, know the facts. Car accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers ages 15 to 20.

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Distractions are the biggest risk to young drivers
Distractions AKA:
the radio too loud
people yelling in the car

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The biggest risk factor for young drivers is technology like a phone or other people in the car.

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The biggest risk is the driver getting distracted by anything. Whether it be by a deer or the people in the car.

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Texting and Driving

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Nearly half of all teen deaths in the United States are due to accidental injuries, and 73% of those are due to automobile accidents ¹. We don't want your teen to join that statistic. That's why, at National General Insurance, we want to educate you about the risks teens are facing behind the wheel. Knowing these risk factors will help you, as parents, to set guidelines for your teens as they start to drive on their own.

Texting and Driving

Texting and driving is the ultimate distraction. It distracts visually, physically (hands off the wheel), and mentally from the road. As a result, those who text and drive are 23 times likelier to get into an accident ². Unfortunately, even though it's dangerous and many states have banned texting and driving, teens will often ignore the ban. As a parent, it may be a good idea to make a "no-cell-phone-while-driving" rule with your teen driver to promote safer driving practices. If you catch them texting while driving, you could restrict driving privileges to help enforce the lesson.

Alcohol

In 2016 alone, more than 10,000 people died and an estimated 290,000 were injured due to drunk driving crashes ³. It is a very real threat, especially to teens. One in 10 teens in high school drinks and drives ⁴. If your teen decides to get drunk, he or she will be 17 times likelier to die in a crash ⁴. Please talk to your teen about the dangers of drinking and driving. Also encourage your teen not to get in the car with anyone who has been drinking. Learn how to spot impaired drivers here.

Other Teens

The chance of teenage drivers dying in a crash increases with every additional teenage passenger in the car5. Other teens can be a distraction or can encourage risky driving behavior such as reckless driving, drunk driving or other unsafe activities. Limit the number of teen passengers your teen can have to zero or one, at least for the first six months on the road.

Bad Weather

Because teens are new drivers and lack driving experience, they may not respond well in bad weather. Wet roads, limited visibility, black ice and high winds can increase the likelihood of an accident. Although it is best to avoid these conditions all together, it is critical that teen drivers receive instruction on how to drive in inclement weather before they experience it firsthand. Let your teen know how to drive on ice and in the rain before it happens.

Anxiety

Inexperienced drivers may be anxious about a particular intersection or activity, such as merging onto the highway. In these cases, the more often you guide your teen through these scenarios, the less stressful it will be when your teen drives through these alone.

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Nearly half of all teen deaths in the United States are due to accidental injuries, and 73% of those are due to automobile accidents 1. We don't want your teen to join that statistic. That's why, at National General Insurance, we want to educate you about the risks teens are facing behind the wheel.

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Distracted driving is fast becoming one of the country's biggest health concerns.

As more and more drivers text while on the road, distracted driving crashes are steadily increasing year over year. In fact, the Center For Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 8 people are killed every day in the U.S. as a result of crashes involving a distracted driver.

However, distracted driving doesn't just mean texting and driving. You can be distracted by one of many activities.

What Is Distracted Driving?

Distracted driving means driving while not fully paying attention to the road. Many people think of texting and driving or talking on the phone when driving; however, you can also be distracted by:

Reaching for your phone.

Changing the music.

Using an app.

Checking your GPS or map.

Taking a photo.

Checking email or posting to social media sites.

Eating and drinking.

Putting on makeup/grooming.

Even talking to a passenger in your car can be a distraction. You are distracted ANY TIME your mind and/or your eyes are off the road.

The Extent of the Problem

Distracted driving is all too common. Think about your daily commute. How many times have you looked over and seen someone looking down at his phone?

Even if it's just for a brief text, the results can be deadly. Consider the following statistics:

When you send a text, you take your eyes off the road for about 5 seconds. That's the time it takes to drive the length of a football field going 55 MPH! (U.S. Department of Transportation).

At any moment during the daylight hours of 2017, about 481,000 drivers are handling cell phones or other electronic devices while driving in the U.S. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).

You are 3 times more likely to get into an accident when distracted by a cell phone while driving (Virginia Tech Transportation Institute).

Don't Be a Distracted Driving Statistic

You can easily be distracted while driving. Today, it seems like there's always something to look at other than the road. It's tempting to try to stay connected by texting and driving, or to take a quick look at your GPS, but those actions can cost you your life or cause you to injure or kill someone else.

Always think about whether it's worth it. Is the text message you're about to send worth an injury or death?

If you must make a call, send a text message, check a map, etc., pull over to the side of the road first.

Don't let a distraction turn deadly. Take the distracted driving pledge today.

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Wear seatbelt at all times.
Drive no more than you can in one sitting; take breaks.

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Anything that takes your attention away from driving can be a distraction. Sending a text message, talking on a cell phone, using a navigation system, and eating while driving are a few examples of distracted driving. Any of these distractions can endanger you, your passengers, and others on the road

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Nine people in the United States are killed every day in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver. ¹

Distracted driving is doing another activity that takes the driver's attention away from driving. Distracted driving can increase the chance of a motor vehicle crash.

Anything that takes your attention away from driving can be a distraction. Sending a text message, talking on a cell phone, using a navigation system, and eating while driving are a few examples of distracted driving. Any of these distractions can endanger you, your passengers, and others on the road.
There are three main types of distraction: ²

Visual: taking your eyes off the road

Manual: taking your hands off the wheel

Cognitive: taking your mind off driving

In the United States, over 3,100 people were killed and about 424,000 were injured in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019.¹

About 1 in 5 of the people who died in crashes involving a distracted driver in 2019 were not in vehicles―they were walking, riding their bikes, or otherwise outside a vehicle.¹

Sources: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2010-2013, 2014-2018 and 2019

You can visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website for more information on how data on motor vehicle crash deaths are collected and the limitations of distracted driving data.

Young adult and teen drivers

Among fatal crashes involving distracted drivers in the U.S. in 2019:

A higher percentage of drivers ages 15-20 were distracted than drivers age 21 and older.

Among these younger drivers, 9% of them were distracted at the time of the crash.¹

A 2019 survey³ of U.S. high school students found:

39% of high school students who drove in the past 30 days texted or emailed while driving on at least one of those days.⁴

Texting or emailing while driving was more common among older students than younger students (see figure below) and more common among White students (44%) than Black (30%) or Hispanic students (35%).⁴

Texting or emailing while driving was as common among students whose grades were mostly As or Bs as among students with mostly Cs, Ds, or Fs. 4

Students who texted or emailed while driving were also more likely to report other transportation risk behaviors. They were:

more likely to not always wear a seat belt;

more likely to ride with a driver who had been drinking alcohol; and

more likely to drive after drinking alcohol. 4

Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2019

Source: Transportation Risk Behaviors Among High School Students - Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019

What drivers can do

Do not multitask while driving. Whether it's adjusting your mirrors, selecting music, eating, making a phone call, or reading a text or email―do it before or after your trip, not during.
What passengers can do

Speak up if you are a passenger in a car with a distracted driver. Ask the driver to focus on driving.

Reduce distractions for the driver by assisting with navigation or other tasks.

What parents can do ⁵

Talk to your teen or young adult about the rules and responsibilities involved in driving. Share stories and statistics related to teen/young adult drivers and distracted driving.

Remind them driving is a skill that requires the driver's full attention.

Emphasize that texts and phone calls can wait until arriving at a destination.

Familiarize yourself with your state's graduated driver licensing system and enforce its guidelines for your teen.

Know your state's laws on distracted driving. Many states have novice driver provisions in their distracted driving laws. Talk with your teen about the consequences of distracted driving and make yourself and your teen aware of your state's penalties for talking or texting while driving.

Set consequences for distracted driving. Fill out CDC's Parent-Teen Driving Agreement [PDF - 465 KB] together to begin a safe driving discussion and set your family's rules of the road. Your family's rules of the road can be stricter than your state's law. You can also use these simple and effective ways to get involved with your teen's driving: Parents Are the Key.

Set an example by keeping your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel while driving.

Learn more: visit NHTSA's website on safe teen driving.

Many states have enacted laws to help prevent distracted driving. These include banning texting while driving, implementing hands-free laws, and limiting the number of young passengers who can ride with teen drivers.

While the effectiveness of cell phone and texting laws requires further study, high-visibility enforcement (HVE) efforts for distracted driving laws can be effective in reducing cell phone use while driving. From 2010 to 2013, NHTSA evaluated distracted driving HVE demonstration projects in four communities. These projects increased police enforcement of distracted driving laws and increased awareness of distracted driving using radio advertisements, news stories, and similar media. After the projects were complete, observed driver cell phone use fell from:

4.1% to 2.7% in the Sacramento Valley Region in California,⁶

6.8% to 2.9% in Hartford, Connecticut,⁷

4.5% to 3.0% in the state of Delaware,⁶ and

3.7% to 2.5% in Syracuse, New York.⁷

Graduated driver licensing (GDL) is a system which helps new drivers gain experience under low-risk conditions by granting driving privileges in stages. Comprehensive GDL systems include five components⁸⁻⁹, one of which addresses distracted driving: the young passenger restriction.¹⁰ CDC's GDL Planning Guide [PDF - 3 MB] can assist states in assessing, developing, and implementing actionable plans to strengthen their GDL systems.

Some states have installed rumble strips on highways to alert drowsy, distracted, or otherwise inattentive drivers that they are about to go off the road. These rumble strips are effective at reducing certain types of crashes.¹⁰

CDC has developed the Parents Are the Key campaign, which helps parents, pediatricians, and communities help keep teen drivers safe on the road.

In 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation released the . Part of the strategy includes supporting vehicle technology systems that detect distracted driving.

In 2021, Congress provided resources to add distracted driving awareness as part of driver's license exams as part of the .

Several federal regulations target distractions for workers:

NHTSA has issued voluntary guidelines to promote safety by discouraging the introduction of both and electronic devices in vehicles.

1. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (2010). . U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Accessed 8 February 2022.

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. Accessed 8 February 2022.

3. Yellman, M.A., Bryan, L., Sauber-Schatz, E.K., Brener, N. (2020). Transportation Risk Behaviors Among High School Students - Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019. MMWR Suppl,69(Suppl-1),77-83.

4. Chaudhary, N.K., Connolly, J., Tison, J., Solomon, M., & Elliott, K. (2015). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (DOT HS 812 108). U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC.

5. Chaudhary, N.K., Casanova-Powell, T.D., Cosgrove, L., Reagan, I., & Williams, A. (2012). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (DOT HS 811 635). U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC.

6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019). Motor Vehicle Injuries. Accessed 8 February 2022.

7. Venkatraman, V., Richard, C. M., Magee, K., & Johnson, K. (2021). Countermeasures that work: A highway safety countermeasures guide for State Highway Safety Offices, 10th edition, 2020 (Report No. DOT HS 813 097) [PDF - 641 pages] . U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC.

8. Federal Highway Administration. (2011). . Department of Transportation, Washington, DC: FHWA. Accessed 24 August 2020.

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check all mirrors and your surroundings 

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check all mirrors and your surroundings 

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Make sure the car is in good condition and nothings wrong with it, and make sure seat belts are on at all times.

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Check behind and in-front of the car before driving

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make sure that you know all your surrounding

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Texting while driving, distractions by their surroundings, friends in the car, doing makeup while driving,