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Teen passengers: 'The other distraction' for teen drivers

PRNewswire, January 24, 2012

A pair of studies by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and State Farm identify factors that may lead teens to drive with multiple peer passengers, and how those passengers may affect the driver's behavior just before a serious crash.

Our view: Huge drop in traffic fatalities shows laws work

PostBulletin, January 9, 2012

During the past three or four years, we've made a habit of checking Minnesota's "Toward Zero Deaths" website on a fairly regular basis. Our main item of interest is the graph in the upper right that shows the up-to-date number of fatalities that have occurred in Minnesota during the current year, and compares that figure to the number of fatalities that had occurred by that date the previous year.