Ford, GHSA Report: Speeding Key in Teen Driving Deaths
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The Governors Highway Safety Association and Ford Motor Company Fund released a report in January showing just how much of an impact speeding has on teen driving safety. With
Teens and Speeding: Breaking the Deadly Cycle, Ford Fund and GHSA find that 4,930 teen drivers died between 2015-19 in crashes where speed was a factor.
According to the report, speed was a significant factor in 43 percent of deaths among drivers and passengers aged 13-19 over that span. That’s significantly greater than the percentage among drivers and passengers aged 20 and above. From 2015-19, speed only factored into 30 percent of traffic fatalities among non-teenaged drivers and passengers.
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Despite pandemic-induced reductions in driving last year, traffic deaths in the United States rose 4.6% during the first nine months of 2020. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 28,190 people died in traffic crashes from January through September of last year, up from 26,941 in the same period of 2019.
With fewer vehicles on the road, some drivers engaged in more dangerous behavior and are continuing to do so even as traffic starts to return to pre-pandemic levels. Traffic deaths fell slightly in the second quarter, then spiked by 13.1% in the third. Jonathan Adkins, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association, speculates that speeding is the main culprit. Early in the pandemic, drivers found open roads and drove fast
They’re rebels who need to be paused.
The per-mile crash rate for teenage drivers is a whopping four times higher than drivers over 20, according to a new study that mostly blames teen speeding. But some advocates think addressing the problem will take far more than the enforcement and education-based solutions outlined in the report and must include giving young people mobility options besides climbing behind the wheel.
In a new report financed by the Ford Motor Company Fund the automaker has been attempting to rebrand itself as a safety and mobility outfit in recent years, to a mixed response from advocates analysts at the Governors Highway Safety Association found that a whopping 43 percent of teenage drivers who killed someone in a car crash in the last four years were speeding, compared to 30 percent of adult drivers.
Deadly Crashes Went Up In The First 9 Months Of 2020; Speeding Most Likely A Factor
With people working at home, there are fewer drivers on the road, but that hasn t stopped deadly accidents. In fact, they re increasing.
More than 28,000 people died in traffic accidents during the first nine months of 2020, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. An increase of 4.6% from the previous year. The highways are wide open, uh, local roads are wide open, so I can go at higher rates of speed. You know, there s something to be said for having traffic on the road it does slow people down, Pam Fischer with the Governors Highway Safety Association said.
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The Governors Association and the Ford Fund have joined to combat the epidemic of teen driving deaths that have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new analysis shows the extent of the issue.
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As teen driving deaths have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), which has partnered with the Ford Motor Company Fund, examines the significant role speed plays in teen driving fatalities and presents parents with practical tools to keep teens safer.
Study Finds Major Relationship
The analysis found that between 2015 and 2019, teens and their passengers – aged 16 to 19 – accounted for a more significant proportion of speed-related fatalities than all other age groups. During the five years, nearly 5,000 teens and their passengers died in speed-related crashes.