Learner Driver Experience and Teenagers' Crash Risk During the First Year of Independent Driving.

Importance: One mechanism for teenagers' elevated crash risk during independent driving may be inadequate learner driving experience.

Objective: To determine how learner driver experience was associated with crash risk during the first year of independent driving.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Youth aged 15.

Distracted Driving, Visual Inattention, and Crash Risk Among Teenage Drivers.

Introduction: Distracted driving resulting from secondary task engagement is a major contributing factor to teenage drivers' crash risk. This study aims to determine the extent to which visual inattention while engaging in distracting secondary tasks contributes to teenage drivers' crash risk.

Methods: Real-world driving data were collected from a cohort of 82 newly licensed teenagers (average age 16.

Crash Risk and Risky Driving Behavior Among Adolescents During Learner and Independent Driving Periods.

Purpose: Novice adolescents' crash rates are highly elevated early in licensure, despite substantial practicedriving during the learner period. The objectives of this study were to examine the variability in measures of driving risk among adolescents during the learner and early independent driving periods and evaluate how risk varies by driving experience, gender, time of day, and road surface conditions.

Methods: Objective driving data were collected in a naturalistic cohort study of 90 adolescent drivers with learner driving permit and 131 experienced adult drivers.

Vehicle ownership and other predictors of teenagers risky driving behavior: Evidence from a naturalistic driving study.

Objective: Risky driving behavior may contribute to the high crash risk among teenage drivers. The current naturalistic driving study assessed predictors for teenagers' kinematic risky driving (KRD) behavior and the interdependencies between them.

Method: The private vehicles of 81 novice teenage drivers were equipped with data acquisition system that recorded driving kinematics, miles driven, and video recordings of the driver, passengers and the driving environment.

Teens' distracted driving behavior: Prevalence and predictors.

Introduction: Teen drivers' over-involvement in crashes has been attributed to a variety of factors, including distracted driving. With the rapid development of in-vehicle systems and portable electronic devices, the burden associated with distracted driving is expected to increase. The current study identifies predictors of secondary task engagement among teenage drivers and provides basis for interventions to reduce distracted driving behavior.