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Structuring an Effective Graduated Licensing System

Robert D. Foss, PhD

JAMA. 2000;283:1617-1618.

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Motor vehicle death rates in the United States have declined dramatically during the past 2 decades as a result of technological improvements in vehicles and roadways, increased seat belt use, and decreased alcohol-impaired driving.¹ However, countering this trend, death rates for 16-year-old drivers have increased.² Young beginning drivers in the United States currently constitute a serious threat not only to their own lives, but also to those of their passengers and other motorists with whom they share the roadways. A substantial proportion of persons killed or injured in crashes caused by 16-year-old drivers are occupants of other vehicles.³

In recognition of the serious health risk to the traveling public presented by young novice drivers, 24 states have enacted graduated driver licensing (GDL) systems.⁴ Although such systems are quite new, especially in the United States, a number of studies now suggest that they have a clear beneficial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, Chapel Hill.

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