OAN’s Elizabeth Volberding
3:35 PM – Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Car accident and fatality rates among young drivers under the age of 21 have fallen drastically within the last 20 years, according to a surfaced report.
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On October 18th, the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), a non-profit organization of state highway safety offices, published a report utilizing data from 2002 through 2021 that highlighted a wide age range of drivers in the United States.
In the report, it states that car crashes among under-21 drivers decreased by 38% and deaths resulted from car accidents among young drivers dropped by about 45%. However, the reports of drivers 21 and older claim that crashes increased by 8% and accident-related deaths increased by 11%.
Although the rates involving young drivers have dropped, the organization also mentioned that under-21 drivers are “still the most dangerous group behind the wheel.”
The association’s memo goes on to explain several factors that have improved young people’s driving statistics.
Pam Shadel Fischer, the author of the GHSA report, made a statement to the press regarding the newly released data.
“Young drivers are the riskiest age group on the road, and the reasons are straightforward — immaturity and inexperience,” Fischer told the press. ”Many young drivers simply don’t have the behind-the-wheel experience to recognize risk and take the appropriate corrective action to prevent a crash.”