Youth are still over represented in fatal crashes compared to the older population.
The rate of involvement is greater for youth for both alcohol and non alcohol related crashes based on total population, on the licensed driver population and miles driven. After an eleven year decrease in the youth population from 1982, this population has been increasing since 1993. Based on these trends, the numbers will go up unless we intervene. Approximately 60 projects involving combinations of enforcement, resource centers, public information and education, and general outreach are active in the Region 2 jurisdictions promoting traffic safety issues to youth. Projects are generally located in the larger population centers in New York and New Jersey, and throughout the Islands of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.