The statistics about teens involved in fatal crashes in Ohio were so horrendous, that the state brought in a law that restricts the number of passengers allowed in the vehicle with a teen driver.<\/p>\n
This makes a great deal of sense if you stop to think about it. This law is intended to bring down the numbers of teens killed and injured in car accidents. The impetus for this particular law happens to have been the figures that showed 16-year-old teens were deemed at fault in roughly 85 percent of the fatalities recorded for 2006. The figures weren’t that much better for 2007 either.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t just those numbers that made the state legislators sit up and take notice. It was also the fact that it appeared that when there was one passenger in the car (non-family), with the teen it virtually doubled the risk of a crash. The national stats speak for (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The statistics about teens involved in fatal crashes in Ohio were so horrendous, that the state brought in a law that restricts the number of passengers allowed in the vehicle with a teen driver. This makes a great deal of…<\/span><\/p>\n