广播电视英语短句 第 120 课：交通事故-1

Car crashes are the top killer of American teenagers. 车祸是美国青少年的头号杀手。

Most of the crashes result from distracted driving -- not paying attention to the road. 大部分车祸起因于分心驾驶，也就是不注意道路。

Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old passenger in a car that hit a tree. 瑞安迪多是一名十五岁的乘客，他所乘坐的汽车与树相撞。

He was one of the nation's more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in two thousand eight. 他成了2008年美国3万多名交通事故受害者中的一员。

Nearly four thousand deaths, about twelve percent, involved drivers age fifteen to twenty. 将近4000人的死亡与年龄在15到20岁的司机有关，这类死亡约占交通事故总死亡数的12%。