{"id":256,"date":"2015-10-15T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/?p=256"},"modified":"2015-11-09T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:06:03","slug":"drivers-ed-reduces-teen-crashes-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/drivers-ed-reduces-teen-crashes-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver\u2019s Ed Reduces Teen Crashes, Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver\u2019s education significantly reduces crashes and traffic violations among new drivers, according to a UNL study of nearly 152,000 Nebraska teen drivers over eight years. Young drivers who have not completed driver\u2019s education are 75 percent more likely to get a traffic ticket, 24 percent more likely to be involved in a fatal or injury accident and 16 percent more likely to have an accident, the study showed. Findings by educational psychologists Duane Shell and Ian Newman of UNL\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cehs.unl.edu\/edpsych\/npcada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska Prevention Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse<\/a> challenge more than three decades of assumptions about the value of driver\u2019s education. The study appeared in <em>Accident Analysis and Prevention<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unl.edu\/newsrooms\/unltoday\/article\/study-driver-s-ed-significantly-reduces-teen-crashes-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\">News story<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0001457515001943\" target=\"_blank\">Journal article<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver\u2019s education significantly reduces crashes and traffic violations among new drivers, according to a UNL study of nearly 152,000 Nebraska teen drivers over eight years. Young drivers who have not completed driver\u2019s education are 75 percent more likely to get a traffic ticket, 24 percent more likely to be involved in a fatal or injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}