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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think we should all be worried about teen drivers. As a group, they are the most dangerous drivers on the road.[/quote]

Not so fast...

"And adults are the biggest threat, reports the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Take texting: About 27 percent of adults admit they have texted while driving, compared with 26 percent of teens. "However, parents of young children are especially vulnerable to distractions," says Hollcraft. In fact, research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that children are about four times as distracting to drivers as adult passengers are, while babies make it eight times harder to concentrate."

[url]http://www.parents.com/toddlers-preschoolers/safety/car/the-most-dangerous-drivers/[/url][/quote]

They are only talking about inattentive drivers.   Which are a huge threat, but if you look at overall statistics, you'll see that teens have the highest crash risk per mile of any type of driver.   It's not just being inattentive.  It's the lack of experience, high speed, and low seat belt use.

"Teenage drivers have high rates of both fatal and nonfatal crashes compared with adult drivers. Teenagers drive less than all but the oldest people, but their numbers of crashes and crash deaths are disproportionately high. Based on crashes of all severities, the crash rate per mile driven for 16-19 year-olds is about 3 times the risk for drivers 20 and older. Risk is highest at age 16. The crash rate per mile driven is 3 times as high for 16 year-olds as it is for 18-19 year-olds. "

http://www.iihs.org/research/qanda/teens.aspx[/quote]

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