Teen Drivers Buckle, but Teen Passengers Don’t
[2023-10-15 18:19:57]
Most teenager drivers will wear a seat belt after sitting on the steering wheel. But uneasy new data shows that young passengers are unlikely to make a concession
This survey, published in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, shows that there is a big gap in public education efforts to reduce deaths from adolescent driving. Many new state laws impose additional restrictions on young drivers, but few are worried about teenagers who are not behind the wheel.
Automobile accidents are the main cause of death among young Americans, young people over the age of 16 have announced nearly 5,000 deaths annually and more than 400,000 have been injured. The crash rate of the driver is four times that of the old driver.
However, according to the survey, not only young drivers are in danger, 40% of teenage car deaths involve passengers. Researchers at Meharry School of Medicine in Nashville analyzed data on adolescent risk behavior studies of 12,731 blacks, whites and Hispanic high school students over the age of 16 who were collected in 2001 and 2003.
Overall, the researchers discovered that 59% of students are using the seatbelt while driving, but only 42% of the students buckled at all times. Students who say that they are always wearing a seatbelt whether they are driving or on horseback are only one-third
There is also a big difference in gender, ethnicity, and even adolescent performance, but in all categories the use of seat belt passengers is 10 to 21 percentage points lower than that of the driver.
While driving, 67% are wearing a seat belt, but decreasing to 46% when leaving the driver's seat. In the case of boys, 52% of people fell as drivers, but the number of passenger seats declined to 38%.
Blacks were the least susceptible to injuries in the front passenger's seat and only 37% compared to 43% of Hispanic and Caucasians reported that they used seatbelts.
Students making A and B at school tend to tighten passenger belts rather than C students, but there is still a big difference in using seat belts compared to drivers. For example, about 70% of students driving A students are wearing a seatbelt, but only 50% of the passengers of A's students are buckling.
Compared with adult men, male teenage drivers have a lower belt usage rate, and the difference between adults and teenage women's drivers is negligible. However, teenage passengers (both men and women) tend to use the lower belts. In the morning of school, only 50% of male teenagers and 56% of teenagers got on the belt using adult belts. When other teenagers drove, the usage rate of young passengers fell to 42% for males and 52% for females. However, if a driver (whether an adult or another teenager) is detained, young passengers are more likely to use the belt.
Sadly, the percentage of young drivers using seat belts is lowest. Indeed, most of the teenagers involved in a fatal accident have not been fired. In 2016, a total of 818 young (15 to 18 years old) drivers and 569 passengers died in a passenger car driven by a young driver, 58% of them don not wear seat belts due to a fatal accident It was. As teenagers drive and become independent, they do not always make the most sensible decisions about their safety. They may think that they are invincible, they do not need a seatbelt. They may have the wrong idea that they have the right to choose whether to tighten or not.
Passenger: As young drivers increase the number of passengers, car accidents for young people increase. Driving is a "new skill" for teenagers and they need to pay close attention. Young passengers may distract a lot. Young passengers advise intentionally or unintentionally to speed up, brag about their friends, or not pay too much attention to driving. Night driving: For young drivers, the most serious accidents happen at night or over the weekend. Night driving is difficult for all drivers, but as visibility gets worse, young drivers can not antic