Kentucky leads US in most teen driving deaths four years in a row

(TNS) For the fourth year in a row, Kentucky has the nation’s most teenage driving fatalities.

For every 100,000 teenage drivers, there are 114.25 deaths in the Bluegrass State, according to Zutobi, a for-profit driver education company. It compiled its data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and its Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool.

Over the past three years in Kentucky, there were more than 48,000 crashes involving a teenage driver, resulting in more than 13,000 injuries and 210 deaths, according to the state transportation cabinet’s office of highway safety.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Teens are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as