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Earning a driver's license is a modern-day right of passage for American teens - and for their fretful parents. But even though it marks teenagers' first major step toward independence, researchers say parents can still wield a lot of influence on how safely - or hazardously - that transition unfolds...
...first blush, the correlation between parental oversight and teen accident rates may seem obvious, but the research team was surprised by how much influence parental monitoring and communication actually had. In the new analysis, based on data from the National Young Driver Survey, a study of 5,665 students in grades 9 through 12, lead author Kenneth Ginsburg found that the safest drivers were those who reported that their parents had imposed strict rules on driving and also provided warm and supportive explanations for their rules. "This absolutely backs up what is intuitively known about parenting - that more-engaged parents...
...second study, Ginsburg and another group reanalyzed the same data set and found that teens who considered themselves to be the primary driver of a vehicle were twice as likely to get into accidents as those who shared responsibility for a car or had to report to their parents for each use. In the survey, 70% of kids reported that they were the main driver of a car, regardless of whether they owned the vehicle. This perception, says Ginsburg, can promote more irresponsible driving habits. "Kids who have easy access to the keys are probably less likely to have those...
...father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, eventually immigrated to New York City, where he found work as a taxi driver, saving his money until he had enough to bring his wife and children to the U.S. (The older Zazi became a naturalized U.S. citizen.) Once in New York City, Najibullah proved to be an indifferent student at Flushing High School in Queens, more interested in basketball than in books, and he was a silent watcher at the Hazrat-i-Abubakr Sadiq mosque. His imam in those days, Mohammed Sherzad, remembers Zazi's visits to the white two-story building topped with...
Until last week, when he was arrested for allegedly lying to the feds in a terrorism investigation, Najibullah Zazi, 24, was a regular fixture touting for customers on the shuttle lane. Other drivers remember him, describing his tightly trimmed mustache and scraggly beard, standing in front of the white van bearing the company's name, First ABC Transportation Inc., painted in neat navy blue block letters. Unlike most drivers at ABC, who drove eight- or nine-hour shifts, Zazi routinely worked 16-to-18-hour days, often putting in as many as 80 hours a week ferrying passengers...