Good News and Remaining Concerns for Teen Driver Safety: CHOP Physician/ Scientist Comments on New Report

Dr. Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE, co-scientific director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention and emergency medicine physician at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), explains findings from Miles to go: Monitoring Progress in Teen Driver Safety, a new report from CHOP and State Farm®. Dr. Durbin reviews the progress made in reducing teen driver crashes from 2005 to 2010 but also discusses the long-lasting effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), the most common crash injury for to 15- to 19-year-old drivers and their passengers. Dr. Durbin talks about actionable prevention tactics for both parents and teens to help avoid crashes and, ultimately, brain injuries.