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Teen-Driving Fatalities

Original Publish Date - December 2009

According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 24,655 young drivers (age 15 to 17) were involved in 24,198 fatal crashes that killed 28,138 people between 1998 and 2007. Of those killed, 36.9 percent were the drivers themselves; 31.4 percent were passengers of the young drivers; 24.4 percent were occupants of other vehicles; and 7 percent were pedestrians. These findings, based on analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s data on fatal motor-vehicle crashes, show that the majority of fatalities in teen crashes are people other than the teen driver.

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