Vincent Locurto, ext.
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death among young people.
Everyday people between the ages of 16 and 20 will die in car crashes. On average, one teen is killed every 90 minutes. Youths between the ages of 16 and 20 years old are killed in traffic crashes at twice the rate of the general population. The S.A.F.E. program display's gruesome real life photographs of people that have been killed in car crashes and the stories behind them. Most of those stories are of people that did not wear their seatbelt, or alcohol or drugs were involved in some way.