To start my project, I first started by getting some background research to help me better understand my topic. I went to www.yahoo.com and typed in the keywords car crash statistics. I received four million six hundred and fifty thousand results. One website that provided some good statistics was http://www.tacsafety.com.au/jsp/content/NavigationController.do?areaID=12. It contained numerous statistics about car crashes and allowed you to view them by a number of different topics, one of which was age and gender. I examined the results and they showed that males were responsible for nearly three quarters of the fatalities in 2005. While the results were useful I decided to try to narrow my search so I could find results that combined both age and gender. So I went back to www.yahoo.com and entered the words teen car crash statistics into the search query. I received seven hundred sixty thousand results. One website that I found http://www.tacsafety.com.au/jsp/content/NavigationController.do?areaID=12 stated that teen males were twice as likely as females to cause a serious accident, but that the number of crashes caused by males has been on the decline, while females have been on the rise. Most of the other websites I found though did not provide much relevant information regarding my topic though. Most were general statistics that did not break down the categories by gender, insurance websites, or tips for parents about teaching them to be better teachers for driving. I then got the idea to check a website provided to us during the bivariate data project, http://www.nohsteachers.info/PCaso/AP_Statistics/data_sources.htm . There were numerous websites that provided statistics for a wide variety of topics so I began to check the different website to see if I could find any relevant statistics. I found a website called http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts/teenagers.html that provided me with almost exactly what I wanted. It broke down the accidents by gender and age. The results showed that teenage males were killed in car accidents almost twice as much as females. The only problem with the results were that they were for fatal accidents, and hopefully the majority of the accidents I will come across in my survey will not be life threatening. I then went back to the same website with the link to all of the statistic websites, but could not find any further relevant information. I then decided to try another search engine to see what kind of information I could get about my topic. I went to www.google.com and entered the keywords teen car crashes into the word bank. I received one million one hundred sixty thousand results. I began to search through the different pages looking for relative information, but once again I encountered the same types of problems with the results. Either the results were not relevant to my topic, or they were not specific enough. They were only broken down into teen car crashes as a whole, and not specific as to the gender of the driver who was in the car crash.