{"id":6547,"date":"2020-09-09T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveviewgps.com\/blog\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:51:17","slug":"report-teens-driving-riskiest-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liveviewgps.com\/blog\/report-teens-driving-riskiest-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Teens are Driving the Riskiest Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teenage drivers have a greater crash risk than experienced adults. Community and legislative\u00a0 outreach techniques have tried to decrease this risk, but were left with mixed results.<\/p>\n

Over the past decade, the number of teens in the U.S. killed <\/a>driving smaller, older vehicles has stayed almost unchanged, according to an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study.<\/p>\n

During the years 2013 through 2017, over a quarter of teenage drivers killed in crashes were driving mini, micro or small cars. Almost two-thirds were behind the wheel of 6-15-year old vehicles which indicates nearly no change when you compare it with 2008 through 2012. In both time periods, adults fatally injured crashed in larger, newer vehicles a lot more frequently than teenagers.<\/p>\n

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The growing presence of fleet vehicle safety features has reduced the fatality numbers in the past decades, but the inconsistency between younger drivers and others stays the same.<\/p>\n

Understandably, parent’s don’t want to fork out a lot of money for their teenager’s first vehicle, and they likely don’t know how much safer a larger, newer vehicle is. Small vehicles don’t do as well protecting you in a crash and older vehicles are likely not equipped with the important safety equipment.<\/p>\n

A small car’s shorter front end means it’s offering less protection than a bigger one and they absorb more of the force in a collision than a larger vehicle because of their lesser mass. Newer vehicles are also typically much safer than older vehicles since safety technology like electronic stability control and air bags wasn’t that common a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Research previously showed teenagers drive less than adult drivers<\/a>, but still crash around four times as often, relative to how many miles they drive.<\/p>\n

A merged analysis of fatal crash data between the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) and Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) compared the vehicle<\/a>:<\/p>\n