FACTS AND RISKS

UNDERSTANDING THE FACTS AND RISKS

Holding A Note With A Driving Lesson Text — Greenville, SC — Drive Alert Training Academy, LLC

 

  • Text Messaging makes a crash up to 23 times more likely
  • 13% of drivers age 18-20 involved in car wrecks admitted to texting or talking on their mobile devices at the time of the crash
  • 52% of teens say they have talked on a cell phone while driving
  •   Although teens represent 7% of the licensed population, they are involved in almost 20% of all fatal crashes
  • Adding teenage passengers to a vehicle greatly increases the potential crash risk for new drivers
  • Approximately 5,000 teenagers die each year in car crashes
  • According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, over half of motor vehicle crash deaths among teenagers occur on weekends
  • Teens are twice as likely to crash at night
  • Over one third of teenage motor vehicle crash deaths occur between 6 pm and midnight
  • Nearly 2 out of every 3 people killed in teen-driver crashes are people other than the teen driver

 

A Graph Of Teenage Death — Greenville, SC — Drive Alert Training Academy, LLC
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