Citation

Hanna CL, Hasselberg M, Laflamme L. Inj. Prev. 2014; 20(1): 54-56.

Affiliation

Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, , Stockholm, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2013-040809

PMID

23938355

Abstract

It is unknown whether road traffic crashes (RTCs) involving young unlicensed drivers follow the downward trend of those involving licensed drivers. Our national register-based study from 2000 to 2011 indicates that the downward trend for young unlicensed drivers (<25 years) is significantly less pronounced. These drivers account for 10.7% to 11.5% of the fatal RTCs involving young drivers during that time period; this percentage is consistently higher in the Western and Southern states and has increased in recent years in the Midwest.

Language: en