Wheel Deal: August
From August 2006
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Ready To Hit the Road?
By Art Garcia
Your teen has completed high school driver education, supplemented by hands-on lessons and safety tips from mom and dad. In considering a car for a high school or an off-to-college teen, parents agonize over decisions on the overall cost, including insurance and financing, as well as a car’s safety and reliability.
“Teen drivers are out of control,” bluntly declares Richard Harkness, CEO and founder in 1995 of ADEPT Driver, a Sacramento research and instructional technology company that designs and markets multimedia products it says measurably reduce teen-involved auto crashes.
The 2004 National Safety Council reported that teens are nearly four times more likely to die behind the wheel than are all other drivers. The agency also reports that nearly nine of 10 teenaged drivers will be in a police-reported collision during their first three years of driving.
High Casualty Count
Other scary stats show that every year more people are killed on the nation’s highways in crashes involving teenaged drivers than were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The NSC also says car crashes are the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25.
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