Three major risk factors that increase the fatality rates in a crash include nighttime driving, speeding and carrying a passenger. Three major risk factors that increase the fatality rates in a crash include nighttime driving, speeding and carrying a passenger. (Photo: Shutterstock)

In 2016, teen drivers (ages 16–19 years old) were involved in an estimated 1,053,000 crashes involving nearly 2,864,000 individuals. In these crashes, there were 3,270 fatalities. Therefore, in 2016, for every 10,000 individuals involved in a crash with a teen driver, 11.4 were fatally injured, according to a AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report.

Of the 3,270 fatalities, 1,169 (35.7%) were teen drivers, 969 (29.6%) were occupants of other vehicles, 739 (22.6%) were passengers of teen drivers and 379 (11.6%) were nonmotorists (i.e., pedestrians and cyclists). The proportion of fatal injury is relatively similar to the results of a study conducted by the AAA Foundation in 2015 on crashes involving drivers ages 15 to 19.

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Denny Jacob

Denny Jacob is an associate editor for NU PropertyCasualty360. Contact him at [email protected].