{"id":5389,"date":"2011-03-16T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:51:56","slug":"driving-age-to-rise-to-18-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"Driving Age to Rise to 18 in Northern Ireland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/northern-ireland\/driving-age-could-rise-to-18-in-bid-to-cut-roads-carnage-15115369.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Belfast Telegraph reckons the minimum driving age<\/a> could rise to 18 under proposals&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8230;to cut the carnage on Northern Ireland\u2019s roads. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The proposals would also see restrictions on high performance cars, curfews, and a minimum number of lessons before being able to take the test.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, 17-24 year olds make up 15% of the driving population and yet they account for 38% of all fatal collisions. Those numbers got me thinking about the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5361\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">American problem I reported recently<\/a>. The Americans allow driving from as young as 14, and their statistics report that &#8220;teens&#8221; account for 7% of the driving population, but 20% of all driving deaths.<\/p>\n<p>How do the two compare?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s imagine we have 100,000 drivers and 10,000 fatalities in some time period.<\/p>\n<p>The NI figures mean that 15,000 17-24 year olds would be responsible for 3,800 deaths. That works out to 0.25 deaths per 17-24 year old.<\/p>\n<p>The American figures mean that 7,000 &#8220;teens&#8221; would be responsible for 2,000 deaths. And that works out to 0.28 deaths per &#8220;teen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that different, is it? And I bet the UK mainland isn&#8217;t much different, either.<\/p>\n<p>So is raising the driving age the answer? Is extra lessons the answer? I&#8217;m not so sure. Everything points to it being the same in every civilised country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belfast Telegraph reckons the minimum driving age could rise to 18 under proposals&#8230; &#8230;to cut the carnage on Northern Ireland\u2019s roads. The proposals would also see restrictions on high performance cars, curfews, and a minimum number of lessons before being able to take the test. Apparently, 17-24 year olds make up 15% of the [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"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\/5389","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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}