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Risk

Knowing the risks and how to avoid them could really be the difference between life and death, for example:

  • Driving under adult supervision [Low risk]
  • The first 12 months after passing your test [High risk]
  • Driving late at night [High risk]
  • Driving with young passengers in the car [High risk]

As a new driver, the extra risk of being involved in a road collision is largely due to lack of experience.  Although all beginners are in effect inexperienced, and we know inexperience to be a crash risk factor whatever the starting age, younger drivers are more likely than older drivers to perform risky driving behaviours such as speeding and travelling too close to the car in front.

Combine this style of driving with less experience of recognising and responding to hazards and you get a higher crash risk.

You as young drivers are also more likely to be involved in single vehicle collisions as speeding and driver error show risk taking behaviours/tendencies and inexperience which are often linked with young drivers as a whole.

Other risk factors include alcohol and not wearing seat belts.