@article{ref1,
title="Crash and Risky Driving Involvement Among Novice Adolescent Drivers and Their Parents",
journal="American journal of public health",
year="2011",
author="Simons-Morton, Bruce G. and Ouimet, Marie Claude and Zhang, Zhiwei and Klauer, Sheila G. and Lee, Suzanne Elin and Wang, Jing and Albert, Paul S. and Dingus, Thomas A.",
volume="101",
number="12",
pages="2362-2367",
abstract="Objectives. We compared rates of risky driving among novice adolescent and adult drivers over the first 18 months of adolescents' licensure. Methods. Data-recording systems installed in participants' vehicles provided information on driving performance of 42 newly licensed adolescent drivers and their parents. We analyzed crashes, near crashes, and elevated g-force event rates by Poisson regression with random effects. Results. During the study period, adolescents were involved in 279 crashes or near crashes (1 involving injury); parents had 34 such accidents. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) comparing adolescent and parent crash and near-crash rates was 3.91. Among adolescent drivers, elevated rates of g-force events correlated with crashes and near crashes (r=0.60; P<.001). The IRR comparing incident rates of risky driving among adolescents and parents was 5.08. Adolescents' rates of crashes and near crashes declined with time (with a significant uptick in the last quarter), but elevated g-force event rates did not decline. Conclusions. Elevated g-force events among adolescents may have contributed to crash and near-crash rates that remained much higher than adult levels after 18 months of driving. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print October 20, 2011:e1-e6. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300248).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-0036",
doi="10.2105/AJPH.2011.300248",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300248"
}