High Indiana Teen Driver Accident Risks in First Month of Driving
Teen drivers have a 50% higher risk of being involved in an accident the first month after they begin unsupervised driving, compared to the first year of unsupervised driving. Further, they are almost twice as likely to be involved in an accident in the first thirty days of unsupervised driving, as they are up to two years of driving experience. That information comes from a study called Measuring Changes in Teenage Driver Crash Characteristics during the Early Months of Driving.
The results of the study were released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The findings were released in time to mark National Teen Driver Safety Week between October 16 and 22.
The researchers identified the three main factors that increase the risks of accidents involving teen drivers. These include inattention, failure to reduce speed while driving and failure to yield. According to the study, these three behaviors alone were responsible for about 47% of teen driver-related accidents during the first month of driving.
The results of the study show that while teenage driving skills do improve with practice, there are some skills that need further development. The type of accidents that were seen in the survey were not so much the result of a lack of experience, but the failure to develop certain specific driving skills.
The Indiana car accident lawyers at Theodoros and Rooth represent persons injured in automobile and car accidents across Indiana.
