1. Safe Driving Presented by La’Tara Smith

2. Statistics for Young Drivers 16 year-olds have higher crash rates than drivers of any other age. 16-year-olds are three times more likely to die in a motor vehicle crash than the average of all drivers. Drivers age 15-20 accounted for 12.9 percent of all the drivers involved in fatal crashes and 16 percent of all the drivers involved in police-reported crashes in 2006 20 percent of 11 th grade drivers reported at least one crash over the past year, while nearly 3 percent experienced two or more crashes. In 2006, 5,156 13 to 19-year-old drivers were involved in fatal crashes. fatality rate for drivers ages 16 to 19, based on miles driven, is four times higher than for drivers ages 25 to 69. Child passengers (under age 16 ) driven by teenagers (ages 16 to 19) have three times the risk of injury in a crash than children driven by adults. Overall, 9 percent of child fatalities occur with a driver under age 19.

3. Speeding Ticket Cost A traffic officer will cost his department the average of $75,000 per year while he can be expected to issue between $150,000 to $200,000 in speeding ticket citations.

4. Speeding Can Kill Speed is a factor in nearly one-third of all fatal crashes. Speed-related crashes cost society more than $23 billion a year.* Of all drivers aged 15-24 years of age involved in fatal crashes, 32 percent were speeding. accounted for 662 deaths, 3% of the road fatalities that occurred in Germany that year. They’ve got almost three times the population we have.) There are over 9 million vehicles on the road (10% of which are un- roadworthy and possibly incapable of speeding), meaning roughly one in 600 cars was involved in a fatal accident.

5. Safe Driving Saves Lives Money