{"id":7625,"date":"2012-01-02T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7625"},"modified":"2012-01-02T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T12:39:37","slug":"cocky-young-drivers-a-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7625","title":{"rendered":"Cocky Young Drivers A Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article in Luton Today<\/a> cites an IAM report, which claims that 60% of new, young, male drivers think they\u2019re more skilful than the average road user (it\u2019s only 32% of young females who think the same way \u2013 which is still pretty high).<\/p>\n

\"Chav<\/a>In spite of being twice as likely to be killed or seriously injured than anyone else, and in spite of being only 8% of all licence holders, they account for 30% of all \u201coccupant fatalities\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is also pointed out that this group is more likely to take post-test training if there are financial incentives. In other words, if someone else pays for it, and if they get reduced insurance as a result.<\/p>\n

I agree wholeheartedly with the statement that\u00a0 young males suffer from overconfidence and inexperience \u2013 and that these traits together are a very bad combination. But I have my reservations over further training being the Magic Pill which will resolve all problems.<\/p>\n

Young people who drive dangerously drive that way they do because they want to.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They will not<\/strong> have been taught to do it, and they know<\/strong> they shouldn\u2019t Heck, it isn\u2019t rocket science to realise that doing 50mph in a 30mph zone is illegal, or that doing 70mph on a country lane in the dark when you can\u2019t see what\u2019s coming up is idiotic \u2013 someone who can\u2019t figure that out shouldn\u2019t be allowed out without a leash!<\/p>\n

Additional training is useful but it can, at best, only provide extra tools that might \u2013 just might<\/strong> \u2013 prevent them from killing themselves when they drive stupidly and get in a mess.<\/p>\n

But it won\u2019t prevent them driving stupidly in the first place.<\/p>\n

Trying to lay the blame on the training they received up to their tests is on the hidden agenda certain organisations keep pushing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article in Luton Today cites an IAM report, which claims that 60% of new, young, male drivers think they\u2019re more skilful than the average road user (it\u2019s only 32% of young females who think the same way \u2013 which is still pretty high). In spite of being twice as likely to be killed or […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t