In recent years Illinois has enacted teen driving reforms, many of them after the Tribune's "Teens at the Wheel" series in 2006 examined ways that fatalities might be reduced. The state reforms included doubling the number of adult-supervised hours required behind the wheel to get a driver's license and tripling the length of time a new teen driver must possess a learner's permit. Some credit those changes for significant declines in teen driving deaths in the first seven months of this year.
But "we're still losing a lot of teens on the road each year," Lund said. Motor vehicle crashes kill more than 5,000 teenagers every year.
"This is kind of the next logical step," he said of the insurance institute's push to raise the minimum age. "Do
But "we're still losing a lot of teens on the road each year," Lund said. Motor vehicle crashes kill more than 5,000 teenagers every year.
"This is kind of the next logical step," he said of the insurance institute's push to raise the minimum age. "Do