Preventing Teen Motor Crashes Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Summary of the Report of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

摘要

In July 2003, Joshua Brown, a high school senior from Cartersville, Georgia, who had recently been accepted by the Berklee School of Music in Boston, was killed in a car crash. His death was tragic for his family, and it represented a tragic loss for the nation. Joshua was one of 3657 young drivers who died in car crashes in the U.S. in 2003. When the additional deaths of teen passengers and pedestrians are included, motor-vehicle crashes emerge as the leading cause of death for this age group in that year (accounting for 5988 deaths among youth aged 16 to 20). These crashes were responsible for more adolescent deaths than the next four causes combined