TEENS IN THE DRIVER SEAT
About Teens in the Driver Seat – A peer-to-peer safe driving program for your school.
Teens in the Driver Seat® is a peer-to-peer safety program for America’s youth. Too many teens are dying. Car crashes kill more young people than any other cause, accounting for nearly half of all teen deaths in America each year. About 2,800 U.S. teens die each year in car crashes; that’s the equivalent of a school bus loaded with teenagers crashing once every week for an entire school year. On a per-mile driven basis, teens are eight times more likely to die in their first six months of driving than adults. The majority of teen passenger deaths happen when another teenager is driving. For every American teen killed in a car crash, about 100 more are injured. Besides the human tragedy of teen deaths, the societal costs of these crashes amount to $30 billion per year for the nation.
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TEENS IN THE DRIVER SEAT® IS A PEER-TO-PEER SAFETY PROGRAM FOR AMERICA’S YOUTH.
Too many teens are dying.
Car crashes have killed more young people than any other cause, accounting for nearly 1/3 of all teen deaths in America each year (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Since 2012, about 2,700 U.S. teens die each year in car crashes; that’s nearly the equivalent of a school bus loaded with teenagers crashing once every week for an entire school year.
On a per-mile driven basis, teens are eight times more likely to die in their first six months of driving than adults. In 2017, half of teen passenger deaths happen when another teenager is driving (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). For every American teen killed in a car crash, about 100 more are injured.
Besides the human tragedy of teen deaths, the societal costs of these crashes amount to $30 billion per year for the nation.