Research Reports on Teen Driving

Through a unique multidisciplinary academic-industry research alliance called the Young Driver Research Initiative (YDRI), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies® are working to advance science to reduce teen driver-related crashes. This science fuels the YDRI effort to develop and disseminate evidence-based interventions, education, and policy to promote safe driving-related behaviors among teens and their parents.

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Driving Through the Eyes of Teens, A Closer Look
(September 2009)
Read this comprehensive report of recently published YDRI research providing evidence-based recommendations for teen driver safety practitioners and parents that may reduce teen crash risk. Parents play a crucial role in teen driving safety, according to two studies published in Pediatrics in September 2009.
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Driving: Through the Eyes of Teens
(January 2007)
Read the results from our national survey and focus groups conducted with more than 5,600 high-school students across the country. Learn what teens say they are seeing and experiencing as drivers and passengers - in their own words.
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The Science of Safe Driving Among Adolescents: A special supplement to the journal Injury Prevention
(June 2006)
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm Insurance Companies convened the world's leading experts on teens, driver safety, and teen driving in fall 2005 and late summer 2006. That expert panel created an evidence-based roadmap for exploring effective interventions to reduce teen driver-related crash and injury risk. These findings were published in a special supplement called "The Science of Safe Driving" in the June 2006 issue of the journal Injury Prevention.
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