Teen Crashes - Everyone is at Risk: People Fatally Injured in Motor Vehicle Crashes Involving 15- to 17-Year-Olds, 2009 Update

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety analyzed data on fatal motor vehicle crashes from 1998 through 2007 and identified all fatal crashes involving a 15-, 16-, or 17-year-old driver of a passenger vehicle. Over the 10 years from 1998 through 2007, there were 24,655 drivers ages 15 through 17 involved in fatal crashes. These crashes killed 28,138 people, of whom 10,388 (36.9%) were the 15-, 16-, and 17-year-old drivers themselves. However, the majority of fatalities in those crashes (63.1%) were people other than those drivers, and included 8,829 of their passengers, 6,858 occupants of vehicles operated by drivers age 18 or older, and 2,063 non-motorists and others. On a positive note, the number of young drivers involved in fatal crashes each year decreased substantially over the years analyzed, with 776 fewer drivers age 15 to 17 involved in fatal crashes in 2007 than in 1998, resulting in the deaths of 311 fewer young drivers and 540 fewer deaths of other people in 2007 than in 1998. There was also a substantial decrease in the fatal crash involvement of adult drivers over the same period; however, the decrease in the fatal crash involvement of young drivers and people killed in those crashes was significantly larger than what would have been predicted from the decrease in the fatal crash involvement of adults.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.aaanewsroom.net/Assets/Files/2009227951380.09AAA_TeenCrashes_Lores.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  American Automobile Association

  Government Relations, 1440 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 200
  Washington, DC  United States  20005
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash data; Cyclists; Fatalities; Highway safety; Pedestrians; Teenage drivers; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety; Vehicle occupants
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01123442
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 13 2009 9:40AM