Student drivers: A study of fatal motor vehicle crashes involving 16-year-old drivers

Gonzales, M. M.; Dickinson, L. Miriam; DiGuiseppi, Carolyn; Lowenstein, Steven R.

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.08.039

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“…Teenagers perceived less risk than parents, consistent with the results of Jonah and Dawson (1987), who used a sample of unrelated young and older participants. Interestingly, teenagers' fatal crashes more often involve safety belt non-use than alcohol consumption (e.g., Gonzales et al, 2005). One reason for lower risk perception might be that driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, while less common amongst teenagers than adults, directly increases crash risk, especially for inexperienced drivers.…”

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Perceived Risk and Other Predictors and Correlates of Teenagers' Safety Belt Use During the First Year of Licensure

Ouimet

Morton

Noelcke

et al. 2008

Traffic Injury Prevention

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Objectives-Teenagers have the lowest rate of safety belt use and the highest crash rate compared to other age groups. Past studies on teenagers' belt use have mostly been cross-sectional. The first goals of this study were to examine, at licensure, teenagers' and parents' perceptions of risk of crash/ injury for newly licensed teenagers when driving unbelted and teenagers' perceived and parents' intended consequences for safety belt rule violations. In addition, the comparability of these variables to other risky driving behaviors was explored. The second goal was to evaluate the importance of these variables in the prediction of teenagers' belt use during the first year of licensure, relative to other factors related to belt use, including demographics and substance use.Methods-More than 2,000 parent-teenager dyads were interviewed by telephone, parents at permit and licensure and teenagers at permit, licensure, and 3, 6, and 12 months after licensure.Results-Approximately a third of the teenagers reported at least once at 3, 6, or 12 months postlicensure not always using their safety belt in the past week. At licensure, participants' perceived risk of safety belt non-use was high and ranked among the behaviors most related to crash/injury for newly licensed teenagers, behind driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Parent-imposed consequences for safety belt rule violations were not as highly rated as parent-imposed consequences for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Sequential logistic regression modeled the relationship between safety belt use and perceived risk and consequences of non-use, as well as other prospective predictors assessed at permit and licensure, and driving correlates measured after licensure.Teenagers' extreme perceived risk and parents' intended sure consequences for non-use were significant prospective predictors of regular use during the first year of licensure. Other significant Address correspondence to Marie Claude Ouimet, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 6100 Building Room 7B13 MSC 7510, Bethesda, MD 20892-7510. ouimetm@mail.nih.gov. Publisher's Disclaimer: Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.informaworld.com/terms-and-conditions-of-access.pdf This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material. predictors and correlates were race (White), hi...

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Perceived Risk and Other Predictors and Correlates of Teenagers' Safety Belt Use During the First Year of Licensure

Ouimet

Morton

Noelcke

et al. 2008

Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…The lower RRs found for alcoholrelated crashes compared with all crashes indicated that teens are less likely to be involved in alcohol-related than in other types of crashes. Male drivers were at greater risk of crash involvement than women (National Highway Traffi c Safety Administration, 2006a), and when they did drink and drive, teens were more likely than adults to experience an alcohol-related crash (Gonzales et al, 2005;Mayhew et al, 1986;Voas et al, 1998;Williams, 2003;Zador et al, 2000). Finally, for both men and women, speeding and passengers contributed most to an increased likelihood that an alcoholinvolved crash would result in a casualty (Chen et al, 2000;Doherty et al, 1998;National Highway Traffi c Safety Administration, 2006b).…”

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“…Rates of alcohol-related driving and crashes peak among drivers in their early 20s and then decline monotonically with increasing age, and it is not until around age 55 that rates of alcohol-related driving fall below levels seen among 16-to 19-year-olds. Although teens drink and drive less often than adults, when they do drink and drive, they are at considerably greater risk of crashing, and this is true at all blood alcohol concentrations (BACs; Gonzales et al, 2005;Mayhew et al, 1986;Voas et al, 1998;Williams, 2003;Zador et al, 2000). This elevated crash risk among teen drinking drivers may result from several factors.…”

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Crash Types: Markers of Increased Risk of Alcohol-Involved Crashes Among Teen Drivers

Bingham

Shope

Parow

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J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Teens drink/drive less often than adults but are more likely to crash when they do drink/drive. This study identifi ed alcohol-related crash types for which teen drivers were at greater risk compared with adults. Method: Michigan State Police crash records for drivers ages 16-19 (teens) and 45-65 years (adults) who experienced at least one crash from 1989 to 1996 were used to create alcohol crash types consisting of alcohol-related crashes that included specifi c combinations of other crash characteristics, such as drinking and driving at night (i.e., alcohol/nighttime). These data were combined with data from the 1990 and 1995 National Personal Travel Surveys and the 2001 National Household Travel Survey to estimate rates and rate ratios of alcohol-related crash types based on person-miles driven. Results: Teens were relatively less likely than adults to be involved in alcohol-related crashes but were signifi cantly more likely to be in alcohol-related crashes that included other crash characteristics. Teen males' crash risk was highest when drinking and driving with a passenger, at night, at night with a passenger, and at night on the weekend, and casualties were more likely to result from alcohol-related nighttime crashes. All the highest risk alcohol-related crash types for teen female drinking drivers involved casualties and were most likely to include speeding, passenger presence, and nighttime driving. Conclusions: The frequency with which passengers, nighttime or weekend driving, and speeding occurred in the highest risk alcohol-related crash types for teens suggests that these characteristics should be targeted by policies, programs, and enforcement to reduce teen alcohol-related crash rates. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs 70: [528][529][530][531][532][533][534][535] 2009)

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“…Of the 30,917 persons who died in these crashes, about one-third were the teen drivers themselves (36%), one-third were passengers of these teen drivers (32%, almost all of whom were under 21 years old), and the remainder were other vehicle occupants (24%) and nonmotorists (8%). Gonzales, Dickinson, DiGuiseppi, and Lowenstein (2005) studied fatal crashes involving 16-year-old drivers in Colorado, using FARS data from 1995 to 2001. Compared to drivers aged 25-49, 16-year-old drivers in fatal crashes were more likely to be reported as speeding or driving recklessly, more likely to be in a rollover, run-offroad, or single vehicle crash, and more likely to have two or more passengers, but less likely to have been drinking.…”

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Graduated driver licensing and teenage driver research in 2006

Hedlund

Shults

Compton

2006

Journal of Safety Research

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Student drivers: A study of fatal motor vehicle crashes involving 16-year-old drivers

Cited by 80 publications

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Perceived Risk and Other Predictors and Correlates of Teenagers' Safety Belt Use During the First Year of Licensure

Perceived Risk and Other Predictors and Correlates of Teenagers' Safety Belt Use During the First Year of Licensure

Crash Types: Markers of Increased Risk of Alcohol-Involved Crashes Among Teen Drivers

Graduated driver licensing and teenage driver research in 2006

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