Tees and car accidents

Abstract

Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. Deaths from motor vehicle accidents is top cause of death for American teenagers. In an effort to reduce this rate many states have adopted graduated driver’s licensing standards – or GDL -- for these young drivers. Has GDL been effective? That’s what University of Minnesota researcher Pinar Karaca-Mandic is trying to find out. <clip: “Based on our research, GDL has been successful…. Reduction, so it’s quite sizeable.”> But Karaca-Mandic wanted to further and find out if GDL’s success is due to improving teen driving skills or to limiting the amount of time that teens are actually driving. <clip: “What our research did was to sort of take the next step. … It is working.”> With another Public Health Moment, I’m John Finnegan.