{"id":416,"date":"2015-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/study-finds-half-of-fatal-teen-crashes-involved-older-smaller-cars\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:28","slug":"study-finds-half-of-fatal-teen-crashes-involved-older-smaller-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/study-finds-half-of-fatal-teen-crashes-involved-older-smaller-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds half of fatal teen crashes involved older, smaller cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a rite of passage in homes across New York and around the nation: Parents handing over the keys to the household&#8217;s oldest &#8212; and perhaps worst &#8212; vehicle to their newly licensed teen driver.<\/p>\n<p>While the idea of driving around in an older model vehicle likely makes little difference to the teens driving them and makes sound financial sense to the parents doing the gifting, a recently released study by two researchers from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety suggests that this might not be the safest course of action.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the study &#8212; published in the latest edition of the journal Injury Prevention &#8212; examined figures in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration&#8217;s Fatality Analysis Reporting System, and made some shocking findings concerning fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/car-accidents.html\">car accidents<\/a> involving teen drivers between 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/study-finds-half-of-fatal-teen-crashes-involved-older-smaller-cars\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Study finds half of fatal teen crashes involved older, smaller cars\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a rite of passage in homes across New York and around the nation: Parents handing over the keys to the household&#8217;s oldest &#8212; and perhaps worst &#8212; vehicle to their newly licensed teen driver. 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