• More than 326,000 young drivers are injured.(National Safety Council)

• Young drivers are involved in fatal traffic crashes at more than twice the rate as the rest of the population. (National Safety Council)
  
  
• Teenage deaths due to motor vehicle accidents occur on weekends 53% of the time(Drivehomesafe.com)
  
  
• More than any age group, teens are likely to be involved in a single vehicle crash   
  (Drivehomesafe.com)
  
  
• On the basis of current population trends, there will be 23 percent more 16-to 20-year-old drivers on the road in 2010 than there are today –26.1 million.
  The 16-year-old population alone will increase from 3.5 million to more than 4 million by 2010. (Drivehomesafe.com)
  
  
• This age group makes up 7 percent of licensed drivers, but suffers 14 percent of
  fatalities and 20 percent of all reported accidents. (Drivehomesafe.com)
• In 2000, the estimated economic cost of police-reported crashes involving drivers between 15 and 20 years old totaled $32.8 billion.(NHTSA)
  
  
• Motor vehicle crashes are the single biggest killer of teenagers – more than AIDS, street violence, and drug use combined. (AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety)
  
  
• Based on estimated miles traveled annually, teen drivers ages 16-19 have a
  fatality rate four times the rate of drivers ages 25-69.(NHTSA,2001)

• Teenage drivers are four times more likely to die on the road than older drivers.

• 16 year-old drivers have a crash rate three times more than 17-year-olds, 5 times greater than 18 year-olds, and two times that of 85 year-olds. (NHTSA,2001)
  
  
• Inexperience behind the wheel is the leading cause of teenage crashes
  (Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association)
  
  
• In the last decade, more than 68,000 teens have died in car crashes
  (Tell-MyMom.com)
  
  
• 42,000 people die every year on the nation’s roadways –that ’s two MCI centers
  completely packed full of people.(National Center for Statistics Analysis)
  
  
• Chances of dying in a car crash are 40 percent greater on rural roads than highways.
  
  
• In the US, drivers injure a pedestrian every six minutes and kill at least one
  pedestrian every two hours.

• Nearly 5,000 pedestrians die each year on our nation’s roadways.
  That’s nearly one person every 97 minutes.

• Pedestrians are nearly twice as likely to be killed by a stranger with a car than by a stranger with a gun.

• Ninety-nine out of every 100 people will be involved in a traffic crash.

• 80 percent of traffic deaths occur within 25 miles of home AND at speeds under 40 mph.

• At 60 mph, in the two seconds it takes to change the radio station, adjust the air
  conditioning, or dial your cell phone, you travel 176 feet.
  That’s half the length of a football field.

• Each year, inattentive drivers cause 1.5 million crashes in the U.S.
  That’s more than 4,000 every day.