Lisa GilmourDepartment for Transport

Update on Young Driver Green Paper

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Young Drivers

What is the Extent of the Young Driver Problem?

Percentage of 17-24 year olds who hold a full driving licence

What are the characteristics of young car driver collisions?

Nearly 79% of all young car drivers involved in fatal collisions were males.

Likely to have factors relating to speed, recklessness or vehicle control which contributed to the collisions.

There is research to suggest that peer pressure can encourage young drivers to drive more dangerously:

In 2012, 56% of passenger casualties in collisions involving at least one young car driver were aged 17 to 24, as were the majority of the fatalities (61%).

Young drivers are also more likely to have collisions that result in either a fatality or serious injury at night.

The majority of young driver collisions happen in urban areas:

In 2012, these crashes accounted for 55% of the casualties from collisions involving young car drivers.

Rural young drivers are more likely to be involved in a collision than urban young drivers.

Around 8% of casualties in urban areas were either killed or seriously injured, compared with around 12% in rural areas.

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What’s the Evidence?

Graduated Driving Licensing

TRL Research

Northern Ireland

Comparison Site - Data at a Local Level

What’s Next……

Young Drivers Green Paper

Within our Business Plan to be published later this year.

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Lisa Gilmour Head of Young Drivers PolicyRoad User, Licensing, Insurance and Safety Division

Tel: 0207 944 2456Email: lisa.Gilmour@dft.gsi.gov.uk