This white paper examines the road risk facing car and motorcycle (c/mc) young drivers while driving for work, in terms of their involvement in collisions compared to all c/mc working drivers and c/mc young drivers in general. It is based on analysis carried out for a detailed report commissioned in 2016 by DriveTech from Road Safety Analysis.
Car and motorcycle (c/mc) young working drivers are identified by attending police officers as having contributed to a collision...
- less frequently than all c/mc young drivers (aged under 30)
- more frequently than c/mc working drivers (aged over 30)
Car and motorcycle young working drivers are most over-represented in collisions...
- between 6-9am, compared to all c/mc working drivers
- between 6-9am, considerably over-represented compared to all c/mc young drivers
- between 9am-12pm, compared to all c/mc young drivers
- on weekdays Monday to Thursday, compared to all c/mc young drivers
- on rural roads, compared to all c/mc working drivers
Of all assigned contributory factors (CFs) car and motorcycle young working drivers are most likely
to contribute through observation errors.
Full report in downloadable .pdf