According to a new federal report, fatal car accidents involving teen drivers dropped by about a third over the span of five years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of teen deaths fell dramatically from approximately 2,200 in 2004 to 1,400 in 2008. The report partly credits the drop to tougher driving restrictions placed on younger drivers.

The CDC looked at fatal accidents involving drivers who were 16 or 17 years of age. There were more than 9,600 such incidents during the five-year span and more than 11,000 people died in the crashes. The rate of these fatal crashes has been declining since 1996. Experts believe that stricter laws and restrictions on teens (including curbing when teens can drive and when they can carry passengers) is the chief reason for the decline.

According to Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an Arlington, Va.-based research group funded by auto insurance companies, “It’s not that teens are becoming safer, it’s that state laws enacted in the last 15 years are taking teens out of the most hazardous driving situations.”

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