Abstract
A recent study by researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine has found that automobile crash rates during lunch times were higher at schools where students are allowed to drive off campus during the lunch period. The study also determined that while there was a wide variation in crash counts by time of day on weekdays during the 9-month schoolyear, with the time periods from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. showing the largest number of crashes, these patterns were not apparent during the summer months when teenagers were not attending school.