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CDL HOLDERS:  As of June 16, 2025, DMV will no longer accept a paper medical certificate.  Your certificate will be sent electronically to DMV.  Learn more here. 

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Teen Driving Week 2023

Teen Driving Week 2023

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 13, 2023 

NATIONAL TEEN DRIVER SAFETY WEEK IS OCTOBER 15 TO 21, 2023

 

(WETHERSFIELD, CT) – National Teen Driver Safety Week begins this Sunday and Governor Ned Lamont and the Department of Motor Vehicles are encouraging parents and guardians to have a conversation with teens about making responsible decisions behind the wheel.

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for teens (15-18 years old) in the United States. There were 2,608 people killed in crashes involving a teen passenger vehicle driver (15-18 years old) in 2021; 861 of the deaths were the teen driver.

In 2021, an estimated 94,201 teen passenger vehicle drivers were injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes and an estimated 170,083 people were injured in crashes involving a teen driver, accounting for almost 7% of all those injured on the roadway that year.

DMV Commissioner Antonio “Tony” Guerrera was House chair of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Transportation Committee in 2008. He helped lead the effort to change state laws for 16 and 17-year-old drivers to increase safety including a year-long restriction on having friends in the vehicle, an 11 p.m. nighttime driving curfew and tougher penalties for violating the law.

 “Teen drivers are still gaining experience behind the wheel and Connecticut’s graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws are in place to give teens a safer environment to gain experience,” Commissioner Guerrera said.  “Now is the time to have that safe-driving conversation with the teen in your life, today and everyday.”

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