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Show Yoyng drivers have high accident rate Youthful drivers, those under 25 years of age, represent about 15 of all licensed drivers driv-ers in the country. Yet, they were involved in more than 29 per cent of all highway deaths and more than 25 per cent of all non-fatal mishaps in 1964. The figures are contained in a report by the Travelers Insurance In-surance Companies compiled from a .country-wide survey of state motor vehicle departments. depart-ments. The report has been published since 1931 and more than 4,000,000 copies are distributed. dis-tributed. Older drivers, those over 65, were involved in 7.7 per cent of the fatal crashes, and represent repre-sent about 7 per cent of the driving population. A Travelers spokesman noted? that excessive speed was the number one killer in 1964, as it has been for the past several sev-eral years. He said that "the young driver's desire for speed, coupled with a lack of maturity, matur-ity, makes this category the most dangerous on the road." He pointed out that 'highway lunatics' can be found in any age group, but the fact remains re-mains that the greatest percentage per-centage of them are under 25 years of age. |