WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Nearly two of every three people killed on U.S. roadways die in accidents involving drivers between the ages of 15 and 17, a AAA motor club study says.
Using data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the motor club found crashes from 1995 through 2004 involving drivers 15 to 17 killed 30,917 people. About 64 percent of the deaths were passengers, people in other vehicles or pedestrians.
Elderly drivers mostly kill themselves when they crash, USA Today reported.
An Insurance Institute study also found teenagers' risk of dying in a crash nearly doubles when one male passenger is in the car, and more than doubles when two or more young male passengers are in the car.
AAA plans to use the findings to push state legislators to enact tougher teen-licensing laws, the newspaper said. Thirty-two states restrict whom new teen drivers can transport and when they can drive.
