{"id":14129,"date":"2013-10-16T23:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T22:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14129"},"modified":"2013-10-16T23:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T22:57:33","slug":"increasing-the-minimum-driving-age-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14129","title":{"rendered":"Increasing The Minimum Driving Age… Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

I told you we hadn\u2019t heard the last of this one. It\u2019s going to run, and run\u2026 and then run some more. Especially with driving instructors like this<\/a> opening their mouths.<\/p>\n

In spite of almost every organisation welcoming the changes at least in part (though the AA\u2019s spokesman and president is so far removed from reality his views are highly misleading), this driving instructor from Wigan is against it.<\/p>\n

But Pat Caulwell, of Gidlow Motoring School, said the recommendations would be punishing the majority of young drivers because of the irresponsible actions of the few.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I\u2019ve pointed out many times, driving instructors are not usually the sweetest grapes on the bunch, and consequently Mr Caulwell appears incapable of \"Bunchunderstanding the concept of risk. Every single\u00a0driver is a risk. Every single new driver is a bigger risk, and every single young<\/strong> new driver is a\u00a0huge risk.<\/strong> The accident statistics prove it, and it\u2019s why insurance premiums are higher for young new drivers.<\/p>\n

Risk is a probability, not a certainty. If you look at something like a coin toss, where the probability (or risk) of a head or tail is 50:50, then this would equate to a young driver having the same risk of an accident as an experienced one. However, although they only make up 12% of the driving population, they account for 25% of all road deaths and serious accidents \u2013 just imagine how many they\u2019d account for if they made up 50% of the driving population!\u00a0If you compare that to a coin toss, you’re going to be coming up with tails a lot more than heads..<\/p>\n

People like Caulwell need to get a grip and face up to the reality that young drivers are<\/strong> a huge risk. Even if the majority manage not to have accidents, they still could.<\/strong> A\u00a0significant minority do \u2013 and since we\u2019re talking about fatalities here, there is much more at stake than a paltry 5 minutes of fame in an obscure rag for someone who doesn\u2019t understand what he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n

One in five young drivers have an accident of some sort within the first six months of passing their test. Carrying three passengers triples the underlying accident risk. With these fact staring you in the face, airtime should not given to people like\u00a0Caulwell, who clearly haven’t got a clue. And to hell with namby-pamby nonsense like\u00a0\u201cworking shifts\u201d and \u201clooking for a job\u201d. No one should be allowed to endanger someone else\u2019s life just so they can \u201cwork shifts\u201d. When I was younger, I went through several periods of not being able to run a car, but I still got to work whenever I needed to.<\/p>\n

A licence is a privilege, not a right. A car is a luxury, not a necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I told you we hadn\u2019t heard the last of this one. It\u2019s going to run, and run\u2026 and then run some more. Especially with driving instructors like this opening their mouths. In spite of almost every organisation welcoming the changes at least in part (though the AA\u2019s spokesman and president is so far removed from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,85,87,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-dsa-related","category-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}