Driver education renaissance?

Despite decades of research indicating driver education does not reduce crash involvement among beginning drivers, it still has tremendous popular appeal as a means to improve driver safety. Formal driver education programs enjoy widespread public acceptance around the world as the preferred way to prepare beginners for licensure. For example, a survey in the United States found that 86% considered driver education courses "very important" in training new drivers to drive safely. Only 2% thought it was not important. When the young driver problem is addressed in public forums, there inevitably is an appeal for more or better driver education. (A)

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• Authors:
  • WILLIAMS, A F
  • FERGUSON, S A
• Publication Date: 2004-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 4-7
• Serial:
  • Injury Prevention
  • Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
  • ISSN: 1353-8047
  • EISSN: 1475-5785
  • Serial URL: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Driver education; Recently qualified drivers; Safety
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1782: Recently qualified driver; 1665: Safety; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01060968
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 10 2007 1:43PM