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=TEEN DRIVING 101=

Introduction:
The purpose of this wikispace is to inform the youth of driving all the various hazards there are while driving a car. The statistics listed below are SCARY and our goal is to lower these statistics drastically ASAP. Our job as a team is to persuade our fellow teen drivers to be extremely observant while driving. After doing research we now know that teens are most responsible for teen passenger death etc.

**Statistics:**

 * 16-year-olds have higher crash rates than drivers of any other age
 * $40.8 billion was the estimated economic impact of auto accidents involving 15-20 year old drivers in 2002 (NHTSA).
 * 65% of teen passenger deaths occur with a teen driving.
 * More than 3,800 young drivers age 15-20 are killed every year in traffic crashes
 * More than 326,000 young drivers are injured
 * About 30 % of crashes killing young drivers involve alcohol
 * In 2003 alone, teens were involved in an estimated million and a half accidents
 * Two-thirds of the teenagers who died in car accidents last year were not buckled up.

//Teen driving statistics - teen driving monitor//. (2005). Retrieved from [|http://www.5myteen.com/statistics.html]