The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), in partnership with Ford Motor Company Fund, released a new report, ‘Teens and Speeding: Breaking the Deadly Cycle’ that examines the significant role speeding plays in teen driver fatalities and offers practical tools to help parents rein in this lethal driving habit.
The new analysis for GHSA found that from 2015 to 2019, teen drivers and passengers (16-19 years of age) accounted for a greater proportion of speeding-related fatalities (43%) than all other age groups (30%). During this five-year period, 4,930 teen drivers and passengers died in speeding-related crashes.
The report includes state-by-state statistics. It sheds new light on what we know about speeding-related fatal crashes involving teens – the driver is more likely to be male, have run off the road or rolled the vehicle, and be unbuckled.
Read the article at Ford Media Center.
