Crash and Risky Driving Involvement Among Novice Adolescent Drivers and Their Parents

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ID11036799
AuthorsBruce G Simons‐morton (0000-0003-1099-6617, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development), Bruce G Simons-Morton (Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...), Marie Claude Ouimet (0000-0001-6730-5085, Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...), Zhiwei Zhang (0000-0002-0891-0389, Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...), Sheila E Klauer (Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...), Suzanne E Lee (Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...), Jing Wang (0000-0002-7594-8539, Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...), Paul S Albert (0000-0003-1658-1068, Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...), Thomas A Dingus (Bruce G. Simons-Morton, Zhiwei Zhang, and Paul S. Albert are with the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD. Marie Claude Ouimet is with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sheila E. Klauer, Suzanne E. Lee, and Thomas A. Dingus are with the Virginia Transportation Research Institute, Virginia Technical Institute,...)
Year2011
Volume101
Issue12
Pages2362-2367
Publication date2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2011.300248
PMID22021319
PMCIDPMC3222425
OpenAlexW2142878092
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited20

Objectives. We compared rates of risky driving among novice adolescent and adult drivers over the first 18 months of adolescents' licensure. Methods. Data-recording systems installed in participants’ vehicles provided information on driving performance of 42 newly licensed adolescent drivers and their parents. We analyzed crashes and near crashes and elevated g-force event rates by Poisson regression with random effects. Results. During the study period, adolescents were involved in 279 crashes or near crashes (1 involving injury); parents had 34 such accidents. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) comparing adolescent and parent crash and near-crash rates was 3.91. Among adolescent drivers, elevated rates of g-force events correlated with crashes and near crashes (r = 0.60; P Conclusions. Elevated g-force events among adolescents may have contributed to crash and near-crash rates that remained much higher than adult levels after 18 months of driving

Crash · Environmental health · Injury prevention · Licensure · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Poisson regression · Population · Rate ratio · Suicide prevention · Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics · Demography · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Older Adults Driving Studies · Psychology · Traffic and Road Safety