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Teen Car Crash Risk SLASHED by Later School Start Times

Researchers have found a 16.5% drop in auto accident rates for teen drivers when local high schools moved the start of classes from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.         Following puberty, adolscents are biologically prgrammed to stay up about an hour later each night, the shift in biological clocks conflicts with having to get up earlier to go to high school, rather than the later start times they had when they were younger.    Fatigued drivers cause about 100,000 accidents a year and half of those are causted by drivers 16 to 25 years of age.  A survey in 2006 indicated that 28 percent of high school students fall asleep at school and 51 percent have driven while they are drowsy.  There have even been studies by the University of North Texas that revealed that out of 262 drivers, 17 percent reported following asleep while driving.

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