Working Together to Develop Interventions for Young Drivers, Pre-crash, Pre-offence, and Pre-licence: A Multi-agency Collaboration

Young drivers persist as a major public health problem due to their over-involvement in road crashes in which they and other road users are injured. In 2013 a multi-agency collaborative working group was created in the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, Australia, to improve road safety more generally, and young driver road safety specifically. Funding for a four-stage project was generated, with the aim of elucidating how to identify high risk young drivers (HRYD) – pre-offence, pre-crash – so that early intervention may prevent problematic on-road behaviour. This manuscript summarises the findings of the four-stage project. Stage 1 was a comprehensive literature review of profiling youth (e.g., HRYD). Stage 2 operationalised focus groups with stakeholders. Stage 3 was the development of the HRYD model. Stage 4 was a two-step cluster analysis of de-identified police records of n=2,973 youth with offence data from age 14 years. HRYD model comprised on-road (e.g., offences) and off-road (e.g., community behaviour) behaviours/characteristics. Cluster analysis identified four groups: cluster 1 and 3 comprised non-injury and injury crashers, cluster 2 comprised HRYD, cluster 4 comprised substance users. The multi-agency collaboration revealed a HRYD model and real-world sample. Premised on the notion that ‘prevention is better than the cure’, the next project will test the veracity and robustness of the model across Queensland. The findings will inform the development of multi-agency interventions to potential HRYD before they offend, before they crash, and indeed before licensure.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Standing Committee on Operator Education and Regulation.
• Authors:
  • Scott-Parker, Bridie
  • Stokes, Leanne
  • Gardner, Stuart
  • Cawkwell, Megan
  • Wilson, Matt
  • Panoho, Shane
  • Klump, Sherryn
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
• Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Cluster analysis; Cooperation; Crash data; Focus groups; High risk drivers; Highway safety; Literature reviews; Police reports; Stakeholders; Teenage drivers
• Geographic Terms: Queensland
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01661443
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 18-03451
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 2018 9:21AM