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  1. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute 2009, available at http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2009&itemno=571
  2. Setting Limits, Saving Lives -- The Case for .08 BAC Laws, available at www.nhtsa.dot.gov and A Comparison of the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver, available at http://dwiwatch.org/cell-phone-texting.php
  3. Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and NHTSA
  4. IIHS Teenager Fatality Facts 2008, available at www.iihs.org
  5. Harvard Center for Risk Analysis study
  6. The Allstate Foundation State of Teen Driving Study 2009
  7. Chen, L. et. al. Carrying passengers as a risk factor for crashes fatal to 16 and 17 year old drivers. J. of the American Medical Association. 283 no. 12, 1578-1582
  8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [Online]. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (producer).
    Available from: URL: www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html.
  9. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Dept. of Transportation (US). Traffic safety facts 2008: Speeding. Available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811166.PDF
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