Teen drivers have crash rates 3 times those of drivers 20 and older per mile driven. Immaturity leads to speeding and other risky habits, and inexperience means teen drivers often don’t recognize or know how to respond to hazards.
Teen driving safety research team at CHOP works to reduce the frequency and severity of teens’ motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
Impact Teen Drivers is the nation’s leading voice on texting & driving, teen distracted & reckless driving education.
The number of teenagers (ages 13-19) who died in motor vehicle crashes was 8,748 in 1975 and 2,820 in 2016, a decline of 68 percent. Between 1996, when the first three-stage graduated driver licensing program was implemented in the United States, and 2016, teenage crash deaths declined by 51 percent (from 5,819 to 2,820).
Requirements for Teens Obtaining a Florida Learner’s License Must be at least 15 years old; If under 18 years old, must have a signed/notarized Parental Consent Form (step-parents may not sign unless they have legally adopted the ); Proof of Traffic Law and Substance Education (TLSAE) course completion; Pass a vision and
NHTSA’s Teen Driving site contains information on States’ driver licensing requirements for teens as well as ideas and resources to help you—the parents—lay down the ground rules with your aspiring driver before you hand over the car keys.
Restrictions on passengers of teen drivers. Research shows that when teenage drivers transport teen passengers there is a greatly increased crash risk.
In North Carolina, teens under 18 years of age are required to complete 30 hours of classroom driver education and 6 hours of behind the wheel instruction to be eligible to obtain a Driver Permit.
Effective Friday, June 17, 2011, the minimum period that an Applicant must hold an instruction permit before obtaining a provisional license, or a provisional license before obtaining a regular license, may be extended by 30 days or more based on traffic violations committed while driving with the permit or provisional license.
TADRA is the acronym used to refer to Georgia’s Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act. TADRA is a graduated driver’s …
