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=** Collision Avoidance 101 ** By Christine Walden, Kai Farrell, and Alexis Beren =

Introduction:
**The purpose of this wikispace is to inform people (especially teenagers) the importance of driving safety. Below are a list of statistics that show just how dangerous teenage driving can be. That's okay though. We're not here to scare you off the road. We want to help you. If you read all of the pages on this wikispace, you will hopefully have a better understanding of how to avoid catastrophic events. If you look to your left, you will see links to different pages. They will all provide you with different types of scenarios and they will analyze the physics behind it. By reading the pages, you might get an idea of how to be safe in a similar situation.**

Statistics:

 * **16-year-olds have higher crash rates than drivers of any other age**
 * **The National Highway Safety Traffic Administration reports that most drivers engage in activities that take their attention away from the road. These activities include:**
 * **Talking with other passengers: 81%**
 * **Playing with the radio or CD: 68%**
 * **Eating or drinking: 49%**
 * **Using a cell phone: 25%**
 * **In the 1990s, 63,000 teens ages 15-19 died in traffic crashes**
 * **Two teens in a car increases the likelihood of a crash by 86 percent**
 * **Traffic crashes are the number one cause of death among the children and young adults**
 * **More than 3,800 young drivers age 15-20 are killed every year in traffic crashes.**


 * // Teen driving statistics - teen driving monitor //.** (2005). Retrieved from [|http://www.5myteen.com/statistics.html]