Associations of road and visual environment characteristics with speeding behaviors among high risk teen drivers.

Armita Kar¹, Harvey J Miller², Enas Alshaikh³, Nicole Williams⁴, Robyn Recker⁵, Jingzhen Yang⁶

¹Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States; Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, United States.

²Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States; Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.

³Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, United States.

⁴Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.

⁵Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, United States; Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States.

⁶Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, United States; Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States. Electronic address: Ginger.Yang@nationwidechildrens.org.

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INTRODUCTION: Traffic crashes are the leading cause of injury and death among U.S. teenagers. While research has mainly focused on teen driver-related factors, the influence of road design and visual environments on risky driving behaviors like speeding remains understudied. This study examined associations of road and visual environment characteristics with speeding behavior among teen drivers ag…

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