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CHOP and State Farm Insurance Companies® convened the world's leading experts on teens, driver safety, and teen driving to create an evidence-based road map for exploring effective interventions to reduce teen driver-related crash and injury risk. Expert panelists summarized state-of-the-art research and knowledge in relation to driving in an 11-paper series published in the June 2006 issue of Injury Prevention as a special supplement. Read the full articles  from the Science of Safe Driving Among Adolescents.

This report describes what teens shared with us as part of the National Young Driver Survey (NYDS), a research collaboration of CHOP and State Farm Insurance Companies®. Through their eyes and in their words – high school students told us what affects driving safety and provided insights on parental involvement, distractions, and risky driving behaviors.

Read this comprehensive report of seven recently published research studies from CHOP, which includes several analyses from the National Young Driver Survey (NYDS), as well as evidence-based recommendations for practitioners and parents that may reduce teen crash risk. Parents play a crucial role in teen driving safety, according to two studies published in Pediatrics in September 2009.

Read this “state of the state” national report on teen driving, which examines the broader impact of teen driver crashes on society and sets benchmarks for change. Through 11 different indicators, the report provides a framework for monitoring the progress and impact of teen driver safety initiatives. The report will be updated on a regular basis to illustrate how current initiatives are affecting crash rates and to help policymakers, educators, and researchers set the agenda for future work to improve teen driver safety.  

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This research brief, compiled by the Young Driver Research team at CHOP, gives the adolescent perspective on parents teaching teens to drive. By describing adult involvement in their learning, these teen drivers provide researchers with valuable information to improve the learning-to-drive process.

Read this second national report on teen driving, which focuses on the progress made in reducing teen driver-related crashes since 2005. The report broadens the context of the benchmarks established in the first report in the series, published last year, to observe trends over time,  state-specific motor vehicle crash fatality rates and injury stats for teens. It provides a snapshot on the progress and impact of teen driver safety initiatives to help policymakers, educators, and researchers set the agenda for future work to improve teen driver safety.