How to make young driver laws even better : fatal crash rates have plunged, but there’s still room for progress.

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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS
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Abstract

If every state adopted all five components of the toughest young driver licensing laws in the nation, more than 500 lives could be saved and more than 9,500 collisions could be prevented each year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) estimate. Some states could halve or more than halve their rate of fatal crashes among 15-17 year-olds if they adopted the strongest graduated driver licensing (GDL) provisions. Institute researchers collaborated with HLDI analysts to develop an online calculator (go to http://iihs.org/gdl) to show individual states the safety gains they could achieve by adopting some or all of the most beneficial GDL provisions in effect today. The five key GDL components are permit age, practice driving hours, license age, and night driving and passenger restrictions. (Author/publisher)

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20121059 ST [electronic version only]
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Status Report, Vol. 47 (2012), No. 4 (May 31), p. 1-4

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