Study: Teens likely to learn bad driving skills from parents

Teens who engage in distracted and dangerous driving most likely learned their bad driving skills from their parents.

That's the finding of a study released this week.

The majority of more than 1,700 teens surveyed admitted to making poor decisions while behind the wheel.

Nine out of 10 said they talked on their cell phone while driving.

Ninety-four percent admitted to speeding.

And a majority of teen respondents said their parents practiced 'do as I say, not as I do' rules when it came to driving.

Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for U-S. teens, and drivers ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely than older drivers to crash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The survey was commissioned by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Students Against Destructive Decisions.