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Article: Teaching young women car safety
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- Indianapolis Recorder
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Wheeler, Ericka C.
Indianapolis Recorder
04-01-2005
Young women are more likely to wear their seat belts, while driving, but
are also at a higher risk than their male counterparts to be involved in a
car accident fatality or injury.
In a recent study it was found that young women ages 16 to 24 as being
significantly at-risk for more injury crashes than young men.
Even more alarming are the findings that 69 percent of all young drivers of
passenger vehicles involved in fatal crashes who were drinking and driving
were unrestrained. And 77 percent of those under aged drinkers were killed.
"When you look at the numbers, it's clear that our young women are at
increasing risk on the road, and we need to ...