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Other Risk Factors

General Statistics

  • Unlicensed teen drivers tend to engage in more high-risk behaviors than licensed teen drivers.1
  • Teen drivers who currently smoke are more than twice as likely to have had a crash as nonsmokers.2
  • Most teen crashes are not caused by aggressive driving or thrill-seeking. Instead, they are more often caused by errors associated with inexperience, such as poor speed management, inadequate scanning, and distractions from something inside or outside of the vehicle. 3
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Source:

  1. Elliott MR, et al. Unlicensed Teenaged Drivers: Who Are They and How Do They Behave When They Are Behind the Wheel? Pediatrics. November 2008.
  2. Hutchens L, et al. Teen Driver Crash Risk and Associations with Smoking and Drowsy Driving. Accident Analysis and Prevention. May 2008.
  3. Curry AE, Hafetz J, Kallan MJ, Winston FK, Durbin DR. Prevalence of Teen Driver Errors Leading to Serious Motor Vehicle Crashes. Accident Analysis and Prevention. April 2011.
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