Learner Driver Experience and Teenagers' Crash Risk During the First Year of Independent Driving.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

One mechanism for teenagers' elevated crash risk during independent driving may be inadequate learner driving experience.

Objective

To determine how learner driver experience was associated with crash risk during the first year of independent driving.

Design, setting, and participants

Youth aged 15.5 to 16.1 years at recruitment were eligible to participate. Participants' vehicles were instrumented with sensors, and driving was recorded during the learner period through 1 year of independent driving. Data were collected from January 2011 through August 2014 in southwestern Virginia.

Exposures

The amount, consistency and variety of practice, driving errors, and kinematic risky driving (KRD) rates during the learner period were recorded. Surveys, inclu

SUBMITTER: Ehsani JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature