#CarAccidentStats

Here are some sobering study results that may shock parents – teen drivers are most likely to cause a car accident within their first month of unsupervised driving.

As time goes on and innovations are being implemented to existing safety products, you’d think that they would get, well, safer. But that might not be the case when it comes to the newest type of airbag, as a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) shows.

Drivers who text have just met their worst enemy – the United Nations. In an attempt to end distracted driving, the United Nations has launched a new campaign aimed to stop texting while driving.

We all know the dangers associated with driving a vehicle, but that doesn’t mean we’re ever going to give them up. But have you ever stopped to really think about the numbers behind the car accidents and what they really add up to or are you afraid they may just scare you off the road? Thanks to AutoInsurance, car accident stats can be digested in the form of an informative and easy to read infographic.

It’s kind of a sobering thought that one-third of all accidental deaths in the U.S. per year involve cars, even with all of the improvements car manufacturers have made to protect us if an accident should occur. Did you know that someone in the U.S. dies in a car accident every 15 minutes? You’ll find this stat and others like it below in the infographic after the jump:

[Source:  Auto Insurance for  Autoblog.com]