Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Teens Behind the Wheel: Graduated Driver Licensing
Offers facts about and research related to GDL systems.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Traffic Safety Facts: Graduated Driver Licensing Systems ( 97KB, 3 pages) *
Provides facts and information about GDL systems.

National Evaluation of Graduated Driver Licensing Programs
Offers an evaluation of the effectiveness of state GDL programs and a comparison of the safety benefits of different program components.

John's Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Graduated Driver Licensing Reduces Fatal Crashes by 11 Percent *
Provides a press release about an evaluation of GDL and a link to a quiz testing your knowledge about GDL programs.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Licensing systems for young drivers *
Offers state-by-state ratings and descriptions of GDL laws.

U.S. licensing chart *
Provides a table listing licensing requirements for U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Graduated Driver Licensing Information
Provides an overview of GDL laws and practices, and general safety information for young drivers.

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionTeen Drivers: Fact Sheet
Provides information about teen drivers, including general data and risk factors.

Teen Drivers: CDC Activities
Offers recent and current research and activities.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Traffic Safety Facts: Young Driver (293KB, 6 pages)
Provides data about deaths and injuries among young drivers during 2005.

New Drivers Resource Page
Offers an informational brochure for parents and teens, Q&A about GDL, fact sheets, relevant press releases, and focus group findings about communication strategies.

American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association
Brain Development and Risk-Taking in Adolescent Drivers
Provides information about adolescent brain development and how it relates to road safety.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Teenage Drivers
Offers data and statistics, Q&A, research papers, brochures in English and Spanish, and information about an educational video.

National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health
Teenage Brain: A Work in Progress
Provides a brief overview of research about brain development during adolescence.

National Safety Council
Teen Driving
Offers research studies, educational materials, statistics and webcast.

AAA Government Relations and Traffic Safety Advocacy
AAA Exchange: Teen Drivers *
Provides facts about teen drivers, information about the campaign to reduce youth reckless driving, parent guidelines and contracts, state GDL laws and more.

American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association
Parent-Teen Driving Agreements: Contracts for Safety?
Offers tips for parents and teens and information about parent-teen contracts.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Beginning Teenage Drivers (English 478KB, 8 pages)
Conductores Adolescentes Principiantes (Spanish 431KB, 8 pages)
Provides a brochure with an overview of teen drivers and GDL.

National Safety Council
Family Guide to Teen Driver Safety
Offers tips, suggestions and actions parents and guardians can take to manage the risks of teen driving.

Graduated Driver Licensing Tool Kit for state leaders and decision makers   ( 7MB, 39 pages)
The Healthy States Initiative is a partnership of The Council of State Governments (CSG), the National Black Caucus of State Legislators and the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators. Together with CDC's Injury Center they developed a GDL tool kit to help people learn more about GDL systems, why GDL laws are needed, and what state legislators can do to improve the laws and to support parental enforcement. Talking points, additional resources and state-specific legislation are also provided.

Graduated Licensing: A Blueprint for North America ( 155KB, 12 pages)
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety & Traffic Injury Research Foundation provides research-based recommendations for the structure and characteristics of GDL systems.

CDC participated with the World Health Organization (WHO) in planning, developing, and writing the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention*—the first major report jointly issued by the WHO and the World Bank on the subject of road traffic injuries. The report underscores the concern that unsafe road traffic systems (drivers, roads, and vehicles) seriously harm global public health and development. Information on the importance of delivering post-crash care as part of road traffic safety efforts can be found in the chapter on Interventions.