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The Alaska legislature is considering several provisional drivers license bills, which would reduce teenage automobile accidents, injuries and deaths. Under a provisional license some restrictions are placed on new teen drivers while they gain actual experience driving. Please take a few moments to read the material below and than answer the following questions so that we can determine the public support for provisional drivers licensing.

Representative Bruce Weyhrauch

Fact: Due to their driving inexperience, newly licensed teen drivers are much more likely to have an automobile accident than a person with more driving experience.

Fact: The risk of serious injury and death for teenage drivers is greater between the hours of 1AM and 5AM than 6PM and midnight.

Fact: Teenage passengers are more likely to be injured while riding with a teen driver than with an adult.

Fact: A person can be issued a drivers license with virtually no driving experience if they pass minimal written and road tests.

Fact: Thirty-five states experienced substantially reduced teen accident, injury and death rates after adopting provisional drivers licenses for new teen drivers. These restrictions, for a limited time period, regulate late night/early morning driving hours, limit carrying underage passengers, and require certification that the new driver has a minimum number of hours driving during daylight and at night before a full privilege license is issued.

Sponsor Statement for HB 213

10 Key Questions about a Graduated Driving License Program
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Comparison Of Young And Adult Driver Crashes In Alaska Using Linked Traffic Crash And Hospital Data
Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - 9 pages - 46 KB K

Teenage Traffic Fatalities Statistics
Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - 1 pages - 4 KB K

Cause of Death Statistics from 1997-2001
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Associated Press summary of recent studies on this legislation
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - 2 pages - 17 KB)

NTSB Letter and Fact Sheet
(pdf - 4 pages - 92 KB)

AAA comparision of laws across states
(pdf - 10 pages - 5.30 MB)

How many years have you been an Alaskan resident?

I live?

What is the age breakdown of people living in your household

Are you a licensed driver?

What is your gender?

What is your age?

Do you believe new drivers get better with driving experience?

Do you believe teenage passengers are safer if their teenage driver has at least a minimum amount of driving experience?

Do you believe a teenager is a safer driver if no other teenage passengers are in the vehicle?

Do you believe inexperienced teenage drivers should be restricted from driving between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.?

Would a provisional drivers license help parents reinforce safe driving habits and limitations on driving for teenage drivers?

If a provisional license law was written to allow exceptions for work related driving between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. and allowed carrying minor passengers who were siblings, would you support the general restrictions on newly licensed teen drivers while they gain driving experience?

Even though it might place additional training responsibility on parents, would you support the provisional drivers license concept if it would substantially reduce the number of teenage auto accidents, injuries, and deaths as it has done in other states?

What other suggestions or concerns about this issue do you have? And if you wish to receive a final tally please leave your e-mail address here.

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