Results During the study periods, 167 crashes and near-crashes among novice drivers and 518 crashes and near-crashes among experienced drivers were identified. The risk of a crash or near-crash among novice drivers increased significantly if they were dialing a cell phone (odds ratio, 8.32; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.83 to 24.42), reaching for a cell phone (odds ratio, 7.05; 95% CI, 2.64 to 18.83), sending or receiving text messages (odds ratio, 3.87; 95% CI, 1.62 to 9.25), reaching for an object other than a cell phone (odds ratio, 8.00; 95% CI, 3.67 to 17.50), looking at a roadside object (odds ratio, 3.90; 95% CI, 1.72 to 8.81), or eating (odds ratio, 2.99; 95% CI, 1.30 to 6.91). Among experienced drivers, dialing a cell phone was associated with a significantly increased risk of a crash or near-crash (odds ratio, 2.49; 95% CI, 1.38 to 4.54); the risk associated with texting or accessing the Internet was not assessed in this population. The prevalence of high-risk attention to secondary tasks increased over time among novice drivers but not among experienced drivers.

Drivers who are 15 to 20 years of age constitute 6.4% of all drivers, but they account for 10. Conduire Un Vehicle De Promenade Pdf. 0% of all motor vehicle traffic deaths and 14.0% of all police-reported crashes resulting in injuries. These rates are thought to result from a combination of young age, inexperience, and risky driving behaviors.

One of the riskiest driving behaviors is the performance of a secondary task, and novice drivers appear to be particularly prone to this distraction. Distracted driving has been defined as the “diversion of attention away from activities critical for safe driving toward a competing activity.” Drivers engage in many competing tasks (including eating, adjusting the radio, and talking to passengers) that are not related to operating the vehicle in traffic, but the use of electronic devices such as cell phones while driving has garnered the most public and mass-media interest. An estimated 9% of all persons who drive during the day do so while dialing or talking on a cell phone or sending or receiving text messages. Estimates based on cell-phone records indicate that cell-phone use among all drivers increases the risk of a crash by a factor of 4. Likewise, simulator studies involving adolescent drivers indicate that texting while driving increases the frequency of deviations in a lane relative to the position from the centerline. Adolescents who were using a cell phone on a test track were more likely than experienced adult drivers who were using a cell phone to enter an intersection at a red or yellow light. Simulation and test-track research on distraction among experienced drivers indicates that cell-phone use delays reaction to potential hazards, increases following distances, and decreases the driver's visual scanning of the environment.

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Performance of a secondary task can increase the risk of a crash because it is cognitively demanding (preventing the driver from devoting full attention to driving) and because it takes the driver's eyes off the road ahead so that he or she cannot see and respond to unexpected hazards. Both the 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study (hereinafter called the 100-Car Study), which involved experienced drivers, and the Naturalistic Teenage Driving Study (NTDS), which involved novice drivers, used data-recording devices installed in the participants' vehicles to assess their behaviors while driving and during a crash or near-crash. In previous analyses of NTDS data, we reported that among newly licensed drivers, the rates of crashes or near-crashes were 3.9 times as high as the corresponding rates among their parents when they drove the same vehicles, and the rates of a gravitational-force event (e.g., hard braking or making sharp turns or an overcorrection) were 5.1 times as high. Here we report the results of our analysis of both studies with respect to the prevalence of engagement in a secondary task and the associated risk of a crash or near-crash among novice and experienced drivers. Study Design and Oversight The NTDS data were collected from June 2006 through September 2008, and the 100-Car Study data were collected from January 2003 through July 2004. The two studies used similar experimental methods, detailed descriptions of which have been reported previously.