Teen Driving - Top 3 Deadliest Distraction
Teen driving have caused the highest fatality for teenagers in a number of years. Recently ABC’s Good Morning America published an article related to teen driving. One of the many causes of poor teen driving are distractions. “Eighty-seven percent of the 6,000 teens that die every year die because of driving with distractions,” Allstate Insurance spokeswoman Megan Brunet said.
According to a study by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance, driving without a seatbelt or driving high speed with another teen proved to be one of the deadliest situations for teen driving. In the research study, out of 10,000 teen drivers who were killed, 50% of them were with another teen and over 75% of them occur in speed limits above 45mph.
With the information from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance, ABC Good Morning America decided to do a teen driving test and here’s the results.
Teen Driving Test
Correspondent David Kerley and his teen daughter Devan, who has been driving for one year, took the challenge.
The pair used the Allstate Insurance practice course and Devan got all the basics, like aggressive braking and collision avoidance.
Once she got the hang of it, distractions were added to the equation. First, texting was brought into the mix. As Devan read a text, she jerked the wheel and hit the course cones. When friends were brought in as backseat passengers, the distraction proved too much for Devan, who hit more cones.
Even eating brought problems. As Devan handed cookies to her passengers, she hit additional cones on the course.
“It was kind of like panic [because] I was trying to listen to them and I wasn’t looking ahead,” she said after completing the course.
“Those cones could have been people, and when you’re distracted, you aren’t able to avoid those cones or whatever they may be,” she said.
Devan said she found the course extremely useful.
“I think this would be a cool course, standard procedure, for teens trying to get their licenses,” she said.
