TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Crash and Risky Driving Involvement Among Novice Adolescent Drivers and Their Parents
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Simons-Morton, Bruce G.
A1  - Ouimet, Marie Claude
A1  - Zhang, Zhiwei
A1  - Klauer, Sheila G.
A1  - Lee, Suzanne Elin
A1  - Wang, Jing
A1  - Albert, Paul S.
A1  - Dingus, Thomas A.
SP  - 2362
EP  - 2367
VL  - 101
IS  - 12
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300248
ID  - ref1
ER  -