The day I received my driver's license, I jumped in my mother's car and motored off into teenage freedom. I remember that first solo drive well, because five minutes into it, I braked on a pile of wet leaves and skidded clear across the road.

Fortunately, no one was coming the other way, and I was going only about 35 miles an hour. So two good things happened that day: I didn't have an accident, and I realized that there was a lot to learn about driving.

Vehicle crashes are the ...

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