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Safety Tips for Young Drivers.<\/p>\n
As a parent or guardian, let your young learners drive, even if it\u2019s just for short distances each time. It is so important to help them get experience behind the wheel while being supervised as much as is possible and practical.<\/p>\n
In 2008, OECD data revealed that the United Kingdom (UK) had the lowest fatalities per billion vehicle kilometres travelled when compared with other countries who were OECD members. \u00a0In this survey, the graphed data showed Australia as being 9th out of the 13 countries involved in the survey.\u00a0 Where the UK had 4.9 fatalities per billion vehicle kilometres travelled, Australia had 6.9.\u00a0 Denmark held the highest with 8.22.<\/p>\n
Recently, Top Tests, UK, revealed data on various driving statistics.\u00a0 Top Test\u2019s 2018 data showed that drivers aged 16\u201319 were still 38% more likely to be killed or seriously injured than drivers aged 40\u201349, and drivers aged 20\u201329 were 65% more likely to be killed or seriously injured than drivers aged 40\u201349.\u00a0 When 1000 drivers were quizzed in 2018, Top Tests found that 42% of the drivers aged 18\u201334 admitted to experiencing road rage at least once a week, and 14% of younger drivers experienced road rage every day that they drove. \u00a0(Source:\u00a0https:\/\/toptests.co.uk\/driving-statistics\/)<\/p>\n
Across the ditch in NZ, AMI insurance claims data reveal that drivers under the age of 25-years old are most at risk of having an accident.\u00a0 In the United State, motor vehicle crashes are the second leading cause of death for U.S. teens.\u00a0 Here in Australia, the government has kept a close eye on road statistics as well, and rightly so.\u00a0 According to 2021 reports, there were a total of 1133 road fatalities for the 2021 year, where speeding remained the top cause of accidents; this was followed by driver distraction, and then driver fatigue.\u00a0 Those aged 17 \u2013 25 year old were the second-highest age bracket impacted by road deaths.\u00a0 The 40 \u2013 64 age group had the most road accident deaths, however it was young men who were more likely to be involved in a crash.<\/p>\n
By March this year (2022), New South Wales had recorded the most fatal road accidents for the year (25), an increase from 2021 with (19). Queensland followed (20), Victoria (18), Western Australia (15), South Australia (7), Tasmania (6), Northern Territory (3), and the Australian Capital Territory (0)<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s travelling too fast for the conditions, using smartphones, vaping or smoking, eating, applying makeup, checking the texts \u2013 all while driving \u2013 these are the leading causes for road fatalities on Australian roads.\u00a0 Driving while fatigued and, of course, drink driving or driving under the influence of some drug also causes road fatalities.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s sad that anyone should die, however it is the young drivers that are the top culprits for using their mobile phones while they are driving, which leads to serious and tragic accidents. \u00a0In Australia, 18 \u2013 24 and 25 \u2013 39 age groups reported the highest application of using mobile phones while driving.\u00a0 18 \u2013 24 year old drivers are twice as likely to receive a speeding fine.<\/p>\n
Hamish Piercy, Fleet Risk Manager for AMI, and former New Zealand Police Officer with the serious crash unit, has over 33 years of crash investigation experience.\u00a0 Hamish was unsurprised that, in New Zealand, AMI received such a high number of claims for drivers under the age of 25.\u00a0 He commented: \u201cThere are a lot of great young drivers out there, and some excellent driver education programmes, but these statistics show that we can\u2019t be complacent when it comes to driver safety. It\u2019s an unavoidable fact that to gain experience, you have to drive. So, as a society we need to look at how we can enable that in safe ways.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n If possible, try to enrol your young family member that\u2019s embarking on getting a driver\u2019s license to run through a local driver training course.\u00a0 Good driving courses will focus on key areas like core driving skills, reading the road ahead, distraction, inattention, and speed.\u00a0 Courses that can impart crucial driving skills will enable your youngster to gain confidence, gain good driving\u00a0skills and driving habits, and get plenty of positive encouragement.\u00a0 These are all essential for getting out on the road to drive as safely as possible.<\/p>\n Safe driving everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Safety Tips for Young Drivers. Get supervised driving experience in all types of weather conditions and road surfaces (clear weather, dawn\/dusk, rain, high winds, dust, gravel, hill climbs, descents, etc.). Get someone who is an experienced driver to supervise you lots while driving\u00a0town\/city rush hour traffic, around roundabouts, out on the motorway, changing lanes, urban […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,86,58,7004,65,3071],"tags":[4339,659,660,7485,3587,7486,165,91,2261,7475,7482,7487,7477,7481,7476,7473,7474,1638,7478,7488,7479,7490,7491,7493,7492,7494,7484,4034,7489,7472,7483,146,7480,2599],"class_list":["post-14223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-blog","category-driving","category-driving-licenses","category-safety-2","category-technical","tag-accidents","tag-crash","tag-crashes","tag-driver-education-programmes","tag-driver-fatigue","tag-driver-inattention","tag-driver-safety","tag-driver-training","tag-drivers-licence","tag-drivers-license","tag-driving-and-texting","tag-driving-confidence","tag-driving-course","tag-driving-distracted","tag-driving-experience","tag-driving-licence","tag-driving-license","tag-driving-skills","tag-driving-supervision","tag-gain-driving-confidence","tag-gaining-driving-experience","tag-good-driving-habits","tag-good-driving-skills","tag-learn-how-to-drive","tag-learn-how-to-drive-safely","tag-learn-to-drive","tag-road-conditions","tag-road-fatalities","tag-safety-on-our-roads","tag-safety-tips","tag-smartphones-and-driving","tag-speeding","tag-teen-drivers","tag-young-drivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14228,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}