What are common causes of teenage road crashes/injury/death?

• Inexperience – often teenagers don't realise how much practice it takes to develop good driving skills.
• Risk-taking – teenagers can be over-confident about their ability and under-estimate the dangers.
• No seatbelt – far too common amongst teenagers.
• Fatigue – teenagers are often busy and have poor sleeping habits.
• Passengers – they can distract the driver or encourage risks.
• Alcohol or drugs.

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