This is National Teen Driver Safety Week.

Parachute, Canada’s national injury prevention organization, holds this annual event to bring awareness to an issue that is important to every driver on the road.

Here, Valerie Smith, Director of Road Safety Programs for Parachute, provides us with some teen driver statistics.

“The number one stat is that road crashes are the third leading cause of death among young people aged 15 to 24. Using young adults are killed in road crashes at a higher rate than any other age group under age 75 and just a little bit more specifically, we know that speeding is a factor in one third of the teen driver deaths in Canada.”  

This year’s driver safety week will focus on youth as change makers, to highlight and support young Canadians’ role in improving road safety, using the theme ‘Our Future Roads.”

For more on Parachute and National Teen Driver Safety Week, go to parachute DOT ca and listen to Thompson Today this afternoon at 12:40 and 5:10.