Safety

Later School Start Times Can Save Lives

More sleep is associated with:

• reduced risky behaviors, including reduced substance abuse
• fewer car accidents
• fewer sports injuries

Perhaps this accident would have been prevented

Research

Positive impact of later school start times on motor vehicle crash rates (two articles):

• Dissimilar Teen Crash Rates in Two Neighboring Southeastern Virginia Cities with Different High School Start Times (full article freely available at link)
• Adolescent Sleep, School Start Times, and Teen Motor Vehicle Crashes (full article freely available at link)
• Adolescent crash rates and school start times in two central Virginia counties, 2009-2011: a follow-up study to a southeastern Virginia study, 2007-2008. (abstract only freely available at link)
• Large set of links on youth sleep and accidents