According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, teen drivers put everyone on the roadway at risk of a deadly crash, especially if they are bringing teen passengers along for the ride. New research found that when a teen driver has only teen passengers in their vehicle, the fatality rate for all people involved in a crash increased by 51-percent. In contrast, when older passengers ride with a teen driver, overall fatality rates in crashes decreased 8-percent. In 2016, teen drivers were involved in more than 1-million police-reported crashes resulting in more than 3,200 deaths. In Arizona in 2016 there were 75-fatalities in crashes involving teen drivers; 22 were drivers, 15 were passengers of teen drivers, 22 were occupants of other vehicles, and 16 were either pedestrians or cyclists. More information can be found on AAA’s website
