{"id":285,"date":"2014-11-28T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:30:33","slug":"driving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?page_id=285","title":{"rendered":"Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>DRIVING<\/h3>\n<div id=\"article\" class=\"overflow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/teendriv.pdf\">\u00a0The unconscionable scare campaign vilifying teen drivers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/stop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/stop.jpg\" alt=\"stop\" width=\"284\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unconscionable scare campaign vilifying teen drivers rarely receives objective media treatment, but Fox News&#8217; recent (March 17, 2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/17\/proposed-federal-law-brakes-state-age-limits-teen-drivers\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> by Garrett Tenney on the misguided Safe Teen and Novice Driver Protection Act (STANDUP) bill provides both sides. In one of YF&#8217;s most important <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022437509001054\">studies<\/a>, we show that poverty is a much bigger factor than young age in what we call &#8220;teenage driving risk&#8221;\u2014in fact, where middle-aged drivers suffer poverty levels similar to those of teens and young adults, middle-agers are just as &#8220;risky&#8221; drivers. Worse, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsr.2007.09.002\" target=\"_blank\">graduated drivers<\/a> license laws&#8217; arbitrary restrictions on 16-year-olds have been linked to sharply higher death rates among teen drivers in California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/?page_id=847\">Those reckless\u2026men<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 60% of teens in fatal traffic crashes were not wearing seat belts! the press and highway officials scream, followed by the usual youth-bashings about recklessness, peer pressure, and fearlessness. What, then, accounts for the same study&#8217;s finding that over 60% of adults ages 21-44 killed in traffic crashes also were not wearing seat belts! The real, unmentioned story: men account for a shocking 73&amp; of unbuckled traffic fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DRIVING \u00a0The unconscionable scare campaign vilifying teen drivers The unconscionable scare campaign vilifying teen drivers rarely receives objective media treatment, but Fox News&#8217; recent (March 17, 2011) report by Garrett Tenney on the misguided Safe Teen and Novice Driver Protection Act (STANDUP) bill provides both sides. In one of YF&#8217;s most important studies, we show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthfacts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}