Crash and risky driving involvement among novice adolescent drivers and their parents

B.G. Simons-Morton, M.C. Ouimet, Zhaoyong Zhang, S.E. Klauer, S.E. Lee, Jessie Wang, P.S. Albert and T.A. Dingus

American Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 101, issue 12, 2362-2367

Abstract: Objectives: We compared rates of risky driving among novice adolescent and adult drivers over the first 18 months of adolescents' licensure. Methods: Data-recording systems installed in participants' vehicles provided information on driving performance of 42 newly licensed adolescent drivers and their parents. We analyzed crashes and near crashes and elevated g-force event rates by Poisson regression with random effects. Results: During the study period, adolescents were involved in 279 crashes or near crashes (1 involving injury); parents had 34 such accidents. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) comparing adolescent and parent crash and near-crash rates was 3.91. Among adolescent drivers, elevated rates of g-force events correlated with crashes and near crashes (r=0.60; P

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300248

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