How many car accidents are caused by teenagers?

I'm writing a report on why driving age should be raised to 18; i want to know how many accidents are caused bye teenagers ummm like in a year i guess you can give me a month or whatever time you would like but please help me!How many car accidents are caused by teenagers?
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In the United States in 2006:





19 years old and under . . . . . 10,719,000 drivers, 2,420,000 accidents


75 years old and over . . . . . . 11,483, 000 drivers, 560,000 accidentsHow many car accidents are caused by teenagers?
i disagree with that because either way when you first start off driving you have to get experiance weather or not your 16 18 23 or any age so the possibility of crashingwhen your younger is because you are still learning. its the same with driving a motorcycle, a dirtbike, a quad, and a snowmobile. you are most likely to get into an accident because you are still learning. and adults cause accidents to
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 3,490 drivers in this age group died in motor vehicle crashes in 2006 and an additional 272,000 were injured.





Drivers age 15- to 20-years old accounted for 12.9 percent of all the drivers involved in fatal crashes and 16 percent of all the drivers involved in police-reported crashes.
accidents are not caused because of how old some one is it is because of lack of experience in my opinion there will just be older people in accidents
Every single one of them. Because if a teenager wasn't there someone was distracted, thinking of one at the time.
too many
way too many