TRAFFIC FATALITIES
Twenty-five people ages 16 to 19 have died in traffic accidents in Minnesota this year, according to the state Department of Public Safety. Thirty-five people in that age group died in all of 2009.
Overall, there have been 188 traffic deaths on state roads so far this year, compared with 200 through July 13, 2009.
Among accidents involving teens this year:
• On April 23, three teenage girls died in a single-vehicle rollover near Altura.
• On April 25, six people died in a two-car head-on crash near Cambridge, four of them teenagers.
• On May 28, a teenage boy died in an ATV crash outside of Caledonia.
• On June 27, a rollover killed two people in Otter Tail County; one was a teenager.
In 2009, there were 236,846 licensed teen drivers ages 16 to 19.
Source: Minnesota Department of Public Safety
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