Teenage drivers are more dangerous

Teen Drivers have long been the riskiest on the road. AAA's analysis shows that unlike elderly drivers, who mostly kill themselves when they crash, new teen drivers involved in wrecks have an impact far beyond their own families.

"When we talk about teen driver safety, it tends to be viewed as a problem that affects teen drivers," says Robert Darbelnet, CEO of the auto club. "I don't want to de-emphasize the importance of (teenage) casualties, but your mother might be in a car hit by a teen driver."

James Champagne, chairman of the Governors Highway Safety Association, agrees. "The safety of all members of the driving public is jeopardized unless we reduce the number of teen driver crashes," Champagne says.

Crashes from 1995 through 2004 involving drivers 15 to 17 killed 30,917 people, according to the AAA's analysis of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. About 64% of the deaths were passengers, people in other vehicles or pedestrians.

Teen drivers killed occupants of other vehicles at a rate almost five times as high as elderly drivers and about three times as high as 45- to 49-year-old drivers, according to an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety analysis of federal data from 1993 through 1997.

AAA plans to use the findings to push state legislators to enact tougher teen-licensing laws. Thirty-two states restrict whom new teen drivers can transport and when they can drive.

The Insurance Institute study says teenagers' risk of dying in a crash nearly doubles when one male passenger is in the car; it more than doubles when two or more young male passengers are in the car.

Source-http://www.usatoday.com

In this way, it becomes necessary to provide proper driver education to teens in a way that they can enjoy it and it must be flexible so that they do not feel bound to defined hours and class timings.

For teen drivers, Teen Drivers Education offers state specific approved Teen Driver course that is totally online and specially, designed to inform teens about all of the driving safety guidelines.

Oklahoma Learners Permit also offers Drivers Education and Practice tests for Oklahoma Teens.