In that time frame in Hampshire there have been 2,083 crashes resulting in injuries or death, of which 559 involved a driver aged 17-24 years old.
Figures for Hampshire, Thames Valley, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Milton Keynes, reveal only Thames Valley with 2,306 crashes, 614 involving young drivers, has a higher number of incidents than Hampshire.
Now the harrowing stories of the devastation caused by dangerous driving will be brought to life on stage with the aim of saving young lives.
This year a record number of Safe Drive Stay Alive (SDSA) productions will be held for more than 23,000 students across Hampshire and Thames Valley.
The SDSA production includes a film of a group of young people on a night out whose car is involved in a collision. As the on-screen drama unfolds, members of the emergency services in the film step out onto the stage.
Young drivers are much more likely to be involved in a crash, often due to inexperience, and nationally, around one in four deaths are drivers aged 17-24.
Through a combination of measures, Hampshire Constabulary and Thames Valley Police have seen road casualties fall to an all-time low by the end of 2013.
However, a disproportionate number are still young, inexperienced drivers.
Superintendent Simon Dodds, Head of the Joint Roads Policing Unit for Hampshire Constabulary and Thames Valley Police, said: “Road death remains the biggest killer of young people in the UK, with the number of young drivers killed or seriously injured disproportionately high.
“The SDSA productions are extremely powerful and hard hard-hitting, designed to make those watching think carefully about their behaviour and attitude behind the wheel.
“It only takes a momentary lapse for a life life-changing event that not only impacts on themselves but also on their friends, family, communities and members of the emergency services.”
In 2015 there were 4,365 injury collisions, including fatal and serious injury, in Hampshire. Of these 1,272 involved a driver aged between 17-24 - 29.1