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AAA Survey Finds Parents Unaware of Crash Risk for Younger Teens; Parents Knowingly Allow Children to Ride in Cars Under Dangerous Conditions
October 31st, 2008
Many parents allow their children to ride in cars under conditions they know are dangerous. Furthermore, parents are unaware of the increasing risk of dying in a car crash their young teens face well before they reach driving age. These are two of many gaps between parental knowledge, behavior and traffic safety facts revealed by a new AAA survey of parents of children ages 12 to 17. An overwhelming majority of parents of teen drivers correctly identified the dangers of driving with multiple teen passengers (96 percent) or even one teen passenger (65 percent), yet nearly half of parents of teen drivers (47 percent) say their teen rides with another teen driver at least...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-10-31)
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