"In a way this reminds us how important it is that parents monitor their young person's early driving, and have some sense of how they're doing," Shope said.
Researchers led by Bruce Simons-Morton from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland, outfitted the cars of 42 new teen drivers in Virginia with equipment to record high g-force events, such as quick starts and...
Out of more than 68,000 driving trips across the study, there were 37 crashes and 242 near crashes while the teens were behind the wheel.
Simons-Morton and his colleagues found that as the rate of g-force events during driving increased, so too did the number of crashes and near crashes. G-force events in one month, they reported in the American Journal of
Epidemiology, did a fairly good job of predicting a teen's crashes and near crashes in the
