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The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and its partner, the Ford Motor Company Fund, just released a new and deeply unsettling report. The new document seeks to shed further light on the leading cause for teen driver fatalities in the United States – speeding. 6 photos
According to the study, traffic deaths have spiked during the current health crisis, and this new report seeks to examine the correlation between speeding and teen driving accidents. Based on research, GHSA and Ford believe that speeding plays a significant role in teen driver fatalities.
Apparently, for the studied period of 2015 to 2019, young drivers (aged 16 to 19) have unfortunately accounted for “
President Biden must commit to a strategy to reduce road deaths in the United States to zero by 2050, a coalition of street safety groups told the new president even before his first full day in office.
On Wednesday, as the Biden Administration was still setting up its voicemail systems and disinfecting the press briefing room, more than 74 organizations sent a group letter to the White House reminding the new president of that which he knows so painfully well: that almost 40,000 Americans die every year on our roadways and that government must do more to get that number moving to zero much faster.
For almost the last decade, distracted driving killed more drivers in crashes in New Jersey followed by driving under the influence and a new factor in 2019, not yielding.
Teens across the country waiting anxiously to get their driverâs licenses were disappointed when most state motor vehicle departments suspended road testing for weeks â and sometimes for months â after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March.
While many states have since returned to road testing, several others have opted to waive that requirement and allow teens to get their license anyway, at least for a time.
Thatâs only fair, state officials say. The teens typically have completed many hours of classroom instruction and supervised driving time. They need a license to get to jobs and help their families by running errands. In some states, new drivers ages 18 and over also can get waivers. The biggest impact, though, is on teenagers, since among new drivers, they take most of the road tests.
Suspended road tests give teens easier route to licenses
Ramon Maldonado, right, of Phoenix, leaves an Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division office to take his driving test, as many young immigrants protected from deportation under new Obama administration policies begin pursuing Arizona driver s licenses, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, in Phoenix. Monday is the first day ADOT will start processing driver s license and identification card applications from qualified immigrants. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Published January 02. 2021 12:01AM
By Jenni Bergal, Stateline.org
Teens across the country waiting anxiously to get their driver’s licenses were disappointed when most state motor vehicle departments suspended road testing for weeks and sometimes for months after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March.