AAA of Michigan is reminding parents of the importance of speaking to their teenagers about safe driving. The period between Memorial Day and Labor Day is known as the 100 Deadliest Days, as that’s when teens are the most likely to get into a crash, and AAA’s Susan Hiltz says that the statistics are troubling:
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A AAA study analyzed data of police reported crashes of drivers aged 15 to 19 from 1994 to 2013 and found that, while teen crashes have gone down, of the people who were killed in such crashes, almost 30 percent were in another car, 27 percent were the teens passenger, and ten percent were pedestrians. Hiltz says it should be a community wide effort for everyone to talk with teens about obeying the speed limit, avoiding distractions, and limiting the number of people in the car.
