CPCU Looks at Graduated Driver Licensing
Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999 Auto Education & TrainingWhen should teenagers be allowed to earn an unrestricted driver’ license? And who should be responsible for making this decision—legislators, parents, or teens? When confronted with staggering statistics finding “34 percent of all deaths of 16 and 17-year-old boys are the result of car crashes,” and “45 percent of all deaths of 16 and 17-year-old girls occur when they are drivers or passengers in auto wrecks,” it’s easy to wonder if 16 and 17 years of age is too young for teens to begin driving. In Graduated Driver Licensing, an article in the Winter 1999 edition of the CPCU Journal, Lloyd Sandbulte, CPCU, cites the above statistics in his study of phased in driving privileges as a means to reduce traffic accident rates among teenage drivers and improve highway safety.
