PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hanna, Christian L AU - Hasselberg, Marie AU - Laflamme, Lucie TI - Young unlicensed drivers and fatal road traffic crashes in the USA in the past decade. A neglected public health issue AID - 10.1136/injuryprev-2013-040809 DP - 2014 Feb 01 TA - Injury Prevention PG - 54--56 VI - 20 IP - 1 4099 - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/20/1/54.short 4100 - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/20/1/54.full SO - Inj Prev2014 Feb 01; 20 AB - It is unknown whether road traffic crashes (RTCs) involving young unlicensed drivers follow the downward trend of those involving licensed drivers. Our national register-based study from 2000 to 2011 indicates that the downward trend for young unlicensed drivers (<25 years) is significantly less pronounced. These drivers account for 10.7% to 11.5% of the fatal RTCs involving young drivers during that time period; this percentage is consistently higher in the Western and Southern states and has increased in recent years in the Midwest.