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A report ranks Missouri one of the worst states in the country for teen driver safety, after looking at factors such as driving laws, crash rates and distracted driving and texting laws.
Generation. Average annual young driver fatalities. Average fatal crash involvement rate per 100k licensed drivers. Gen X (1994-1995) 3,399. 67.6. Millennials (1996-2011)
The 30-year decline in teen driving: 16- and 17-year-olds most likely to delay licensing. Over the past three decades, there’s been a steady decline in the percentage of teens licensed to drive ...
From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 15% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35%.
Support for National Teen Driver Safety Week has grown, and the media coverage for this initiative has been overwhelming. Celebrities, including singer/songwriter Jesse McCartney, racecar driver Zach Veach and television personality Oprah Winfrey, [7] have formally endorsed the week, and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood [8] acknowledged distracted driving as an epidemic, calling for ...
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
Three teens from Kearney were involved in a deadly, four-vehicle wrong-way crash on Interstate 29 in Missouri, near the Iowa border, that happened after a police pursuit crossed the state line.
Impact Teen Drivers creates an online social network through Twitter and Facebook. The first campaign was rolled out in May 2008 and the second was in March 2009. [ 2 ] Fall 2009 was the start of a new campaign, "What do you consider lethal?", including the launching of the new teen-centered site of the same name.