An Evaluation of Graduated Driver Licensing Effects on Fatal Crash Involvements of Young Drivers in the United States
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منابع مشابه
Graduated driver licensing programs and fatal crashes of 16-year-old drivers: a national evaluation.
CONTEXT Implementation of graduated driver licensing programs is associated with reductions in crash rates of young drivers, but graduated driver licensing programs vary in their components. The impact of programs with different components is unknown. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this work was to determine which graduated driver licensing programs are associated with the greatest reductions in fa...
متن کاملA national evaluation of graduated driver licensing laws in the United States
Graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws now exist in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the United States. These GDL systems are designed to reduce the exposure of young novice drivers to risky situations (such as late-night driving and driving with other teen passengers when alcohol is likely to be involved). Our aims were to determine if (a) GDL laws reduce fatal crash involvements o...
متن کاملGraduated driver licensing in the United States: evaluation results from the early programs.
BACKGROUND Seventeen states enacted graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs that were implemented from 1996 through 1999 and for which evaluations are of interest. METHODS We received evaluation results reported for six states for which data were available. Summarizing results is difficult in other than the most global terms because of differences in pre-GDL programs, differences in GDL pro...
متن کاملImpact of graduated driver licensing restrictions on crashes involving young drivers in New Zealand.
OBJECTIVE To determine the impact on young driver crashes of the three main driving restrictions in the New Zealand graduated driver licensing (GDL) system: night-time curfew, no carrying of young passengers, and a blood alcohol limit of 30 mg/100 ml. METHOD The database for this study was created by linking police crash reports to hospital inpatient records (1980-95). Multivariate logistic r...
متن کاملEvaluation of California's graduated driver licensing program.
PROBLEM California's graduated driver licensing (GDL) program was implemented to reduce the high crash risk of teenage drivers. The program enhancements made in 1998 were evaluated in this study using methods that rule out the noticeable downward trend in California teen's fatal/injury crash rates as a possible explanation for any observed crash reductions that could otherwise be mistaken for p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Traffic Injury Prevention
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1538-9588,1538-957X
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.588296