These Three Factors Make Summer the ‘100 Deadliest Days’ for Teens

In New England we celebrate the summer season like it’s a Patriots Super Bowl win or a Red Sox World Series clincher. We have so many months of cold, dark and dreary weather that from Memorial Day to Labor Day, every day can feel like a party.

But those warm summer months can also be dangerous, especially to teen drivers. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, more than 7,000 people died in teen driving-related summertime crashes from 2010 to 2019. And new teen drivers (ages 16-17) are three times as likely as adults to be involved in a deadly crash.

We Save Lives, a non-profit dedicated to changing dangerous driving choices, says that on average 260 teens are killed in car crashes each month during the summer – an increase of 26 percent compared with the other months of the year.

AAA has identified three factors that commonly result in deadly crashes for teen drivers. Learn more here: https://healthnewshub.org/thes...