Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) programs allow drivers to safely gain driving experience before obtaining full driving privileges. Most programs include three stages:
Getting a driver’s license is a milestone for teenagers, but it can also mark the start of their most dangerous years on the road. Safety is important to you.
AAA cares about the safety of your teen, and we want to help you prepare your teen for the dangers of driving. That’s why we have training that offers a premier research-based curriculum focused on teen driver safety, with high-quality professional instructors who are AAA-trained and state-licensed, 30 hours of classroom instruction at
Teen driving safety research team at CHOP works to reduce the frequency and severity of teens’ motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
Restrictions on passengers of teen drivers. Research shows that when teenage drivers transport teen passengers there is a greatly increased crash risk.
Parents can help manage teen driving risks with plenty of quality practice driving and making sure their teens follow GDL and obey traffic safety laws.
Getting a license is an important milestone for teens and parents, but being a beginning driver carries special risks. Per mile traveled, teenage drivers are more likely to be involved in a crash than all but the oldest adult drivers. During their first months of licensure, teens have a particularly
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for cents in the U.S. Teen Driver Source puts research into action to save lives.
NHTSA’s Teen Driving site contains information on States’ driver licensing requirements for teens as well as ideas and resources to help you—the parents—lay down the ground rules with your aspiring driver before you hand over the car keys.
The number of teenagers (ages 13-19) who died in motor vehicle crashes was 8,748 in 1975 and 2,820 in 2016, a decline of 68 percent. Between 1996, when the first three-stage graduated driver licensing program was implemented in the United States, and 2016, teenage crash deaths declined by 51 percent (from 5,819 to 2,820).