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Driving Facts & Driving Statistics
EFFECTIVE DATE 2.15.06
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Driving Facts and Figures: |
- Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for 15-20 year olds
- Teens have the highest involvement rates in all types of crashes
- 10 teens lose their lives every day in car crashes
- Many fatal teen crashes involve excessive speed or driving too fast for existing road conditions
- 77% of teen crashes involved avoidable driver errors
- 31,000 people were killed in crashes involving teens between 1995 and 2004
- Since March 2003, 2,600 American troops were killed in war-related accidents. In the same 41-month period, over 22,000 teens 15-19 died in car crashes throughout the U.S.
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Mature Driver
Facts and Figures: |
- Drivers 65+ are twice as likely to die in car crashes as drivers 55 to 64
- Drivers 85+ are nearly 4x as likely to be killed in a car crash than the 55 to 64 age group
- Mature drivers are more likely to be ill or suffer some kind of physical ailment at the time of their crash or have a perceptual lapse when their crash occurred such as disregarding signs or making a left turn into oncoming traffic
- More than 3,100 drivers over 70 were killed in crashes in 2002
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Driving MBA prepares students for the realities of the road. Through our comprehensive training program of high-tech simulation and classroom instruction, combined with on-road practice, our students experience greater improvements than those obtained by police officers in on-track training programs.
- 85% of our students are at or above the 80th percentile after training
- Driving MBA significantly improves performance on key driving skills
- At-fault collision rates for our students are significantly below the national average for new young drivers
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