The relationship between years of licensing, traffic offences, and crash involvement: implications for driver licensing in Western Australia

Young drivers continue to represent a major problem on Australian roads due to their over-involvement in crashes and traffic offences compared with more experienced drivers. The overall aim of this West Australian study was to investigate the crash and traffic offence history of new drivers for the purpose of developing recommendations for driver licensing. The specific objectives of the study were to (i) undertake a descriptive and comparative analysis of the crashes and traffic offences of first year drivers and drivers licensed for 10 years and 5 years, (ii) to model the effect of 'years of licensing' on crash involvement, and (iii) to model the effects of traffic infringements and convictions on crash involvement among first year drivers. Compared with more experienced drivers, first year drivers were up to 3.6 times more likely to be involved in a crash. It was also found that both infringements and convictions were predictive of first year drivers' involvement in a subsequent crash and that infringements alone were predictive of first year drivers' involvement in a subsequent serious injury crash. Based on these findings and other research, a number of recommendations for driver licensing in Western Australia are proposed so as to reduce the incidence of crashes and injury among novice drivers.

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• Authors:
  • Palamara, P
  • Legge, M
  • Stevenson, M
• Conference:
  • NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPING SAFER DRIVERS AND RIDERS, 2002, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 16p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Crimes; Driver experience; Driver licenses; Drivers; Highway safety; Mathematical models; Recently qualified drivers; Young adults
• Geographic Terms: Western Australia
• ATRI Terms: Crash rate; Drivers licence; Driving experience; Modelling; Novice driver; Offence; Road safety; Young driver
• Subject Areas: Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01443914
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0958569126
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 27 2012 11:42AM