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Teen Drivers Should Be Off the Road By Midnight  -  Health officials want to ban the teenage drivers from driving before midnight to lessen the cases of teen ... No more teen drivers at 12 am until 6 am.

Teen Drivers Are Even More Distracted At The Wheel: Here's Why  - Statistics show that car insurance is oftentimes higher among younger drivers, which might explain why teen drivers have so many distractions behind ...

Branding Teen Drivers As Newbies Doesn't Prevent Crashes  - GDL has been the cornerstone of public policy in reducing [ teen driver] ... The reasoning behind it is simple: the police can now easily identify teen drivers ... a behavioral scientist with the National Institutes of Health who researches ...

Distraction is often a factor in teen drivers' rear-end collisions  - When a phone was the distraction, the reaction times of teen drivers were markedly slower, and about half the time they did not brake or steer to avoid the crash, researchers report in the Journal of Safety Research .  

Teen drivers start cautiously, grow careless with time  -  Teen drivers are very cautious behind the wheel when they first start driving, ... and the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development.

Fatal crashes involving teen drivers decline sharply in US  - The number of teen drivers involved in fatal crashes dropped by more than half over the past decade as safer vehicles hit the road ...

When Teen Drivers Multitask, They're Even Worse Than Adults  -  Teen drivers start off being careful, but they tend to start multitasking after just a few months behind the wheel, according to research published  ...

Calls from parents distract teen drivers, study finds  - More than half of teen drivers reported talking to their mother or father on the phone while driving, according to a new study presented at the American ...

U.S. teen drivers cause 60-90% spike to parents' insurance rates: report  - homeowners, health , renters, dental, group health and business insurance. ... Teen drivers cause premiums to more than double in four other states: ...

Phones, friends are distracting problem for teen drivers  - Distractions, especially talking with passengers and using cellphones, play a far greater role in car crashes involving teen drivers than has been ...

Fatal crashes involving teen drivers decline sharply in US  - The number of teen drivers involved in fatal crashes dropped by more than half over the past decade as safer vehicles hit the road and more young ...

Teen Drivers  - As you know, when teens start to drive, I am a huge advocate for parent ... by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and is an ... The website includes teen driving statistics to help parents keep their teen   ...

Distracted teen drivers? Worse than you think  - In this frame grab from a video provided by The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, a teen driver texts as his vehicle moves to the opposite side of the ...

How Gender Affects the Behavior of Teen Drivers  - A car accident is the most likely reason a teen won't make it to adulthood. ... For the study, which was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health , ...

Distraction is often a factor in teen drivers' rear-end collisions  - In a U.S. study using in-car video recorders, more than three-quarters of rear end collisions involving a teen driver happened when ...

Blocking smartphone use by teen drivers may reduce crash risks  - Filming teens while they drive and blocking cell phone signals inside their cars may both help reduce distractions that lead to ...

Most Nighttime Crashes With Teen Drivers Happen Before Midnight  -  Teens are driving unsupervised too late at night, a recent study suggests, and expanding restrictions on their nighttime driving to include the hours ...

More Needs to be Done to Keep Teen Drivers Safe, Pediatricians Say - The driving risks may be even higher for teens with medical concerns, such as attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), concussions or sleep ...

Teen drivers safer when parents improve teaching skills  - The clinical trial, published last Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, found that teens whose parents were randomly assigned instructional tools for about six ...

Early Start Time in Schools May Increase Crash Rate among Teen Drivers  - The study, which was conducted as part of a campaign launched by the National Health Sleep Awareness Project called Awake the Wheel, compared ...