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Teenage drivers: patterns of risk.

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Patterns of risk among teenage drivers form the basis for graduated licensing systems, which are designed to promote low-risk and discourage high-risk driving.
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This article is published in Journal of Safety Research.The article was published on 2003-01-30. It has received 725 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Graduated driver licensing & Risk assessment.

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Booster Dose of Attention Training Program for Young Novice Drivers: A Longitudinal Driving Simulator Evaluation Study.

TL;DR: Policy makers should consider requiring such training before the completion of graduate driver license programs, as ACCEL enhances young novice drivers' latent HA performance.

Crash report for Palo Alto, 2010-2019

TL;DR: In a sustainably safe road traffic system as mentioned in this paper , the road and the vehicle protect you and those around you against major traffic hazards, and traffic professionals work to-gether and check one another to achieve a maximally safe result.
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Changes in collision rates among novice drivers during the first months of driving.

TL;DR: It was found that crash rates drop most dramatically during the first 6 months of driving, and a graduated driver licensing system is identified as an effective method for ensuring that this development takes place in a more forgiving environment.
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Carrying Passengers as a Risk Factor for Crashes Fatal to 16- and 17-Year-Old Drivers

TL;DR: The data indicate that the risk of fatal injury for a 16- or 17-year-old driver increases with the number of passengers, which supports inclusion of restrictions on carrying passengers in graduated licensing systems for young drivers.
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Alcohol-related relative risk of driver fatalities and driver involvement in fatal crashes in relation to driver age and gender: an update using 1996 data.

TL;DR: This is the first study that systematically estimated relative risk for drink-drivers with BACs between 0.08% and 0.10% (these relative risk estimates apply to BAC range midpoints at 0.09%.) the results clearly show that drivers with a BAC under 0.
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Driving experience, crashes and traffic citations of teenage beginning drivers

TL;DR: Self-reported crash involvements and citations were examined for each teenager's first year of licensure and first 3500 miles driven to find male gender, a lower GPA and living in a rural area were associated with a higher citation rate.
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The situational risks of young drivers: the influence of passengers, time of day and day of week on accident rates

TL;DR: The results indicate that the accident involvement rates of 16-19 year old drivers are higher than those of 20-24 and 25-59 year olds in all situations that were examined, but that they were disproportionately high on weekends, at nighttime and with passengers.
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