Inexperience a key factor in youth crashes

Young drivers are 15 times more likely to have an accident once they move from their learners to a provisional licence.

Young drivers are 15 times more likely to have an accident once they move from their learners to a provisional licence.
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009

A University of 亚洲色吧 study has found that young drivers are twice as likely to have an accident during their first few months of driving on a than after a year of driving experience.

Craig Kloeden from the University's (CASR) says the high crash rates show that many newly-licensed young drivers are still too inexperienced to handle a vehicle safely.

"The study indicates that it is many hundreds of hours before young drivers be