Teenage Driving Statistics

Car crashes are the leading cause of death for American teenagers.

In 2005, more than 7,000 people aged 15 to 20 were involved in fatal crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.*

In order to minimize traffic related deaths, injuries, property damage and the heavy economic toll to society, WE MUST CULTIVATE SKILLED DRIVERS.

Contrast and compare. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) advises college coaches to follow a regiment of practice and training of 4 hours a day, 5 days a week for a total of 20 hours of training per week. This equates to as much as 445 hours of practice over the course of a typical sports season. Yet, we devote only a fraction of that time (50 hours or less!) toward training teens how to handle the most important responsibility they will ever have faced—driving an automobile.

DID YOU KNOW THAT IN 2002 . . .

6,724 teen drivers were killed in motor vehicle crashes
Another 8,000 occupants of other vehicles were killed by young drivers
Another 324,000 teen drivers were injured in non-fatal accidents
Teen insurance reached an all-time high
Today, the national estimated annual cost of automobile crashes involving young drivers each year is $32,000,000,000. (That’s 32 billion dollars in one year!)

The need to “up the standard” and improve our approach to driver education has become starkly apparent with statistics such as these. That’s why most states have enacted new Graduated Driver Licensing laws which involve parent taught driver education where the student must “graduate” through levels of training and on-road experience until the desired skill level is achieved. In partnership with GDL requirements, it is the mission of OSBrake, Inc. to equip parents to meet the requirement of driving instruction, safely and effectively with professional dual-control passenger brakes and teaching guidelines for proper instruction.

Making parents better teachers and teens safer drivers.

* Source: Reuters, 26 January 2007.