This white paper examines the road risk facing van and professional (v/p) young drivers while driving for work, in terms of their involvement in collisions compared to v/p working drivers of all ages, and to v/p young drivers in general.
Van and professional (v/p) young working drivers are identified by an attending police officer as having contributed to a collision...
- less frequently than all v/p young drivers (aged under 30)
- more frequently than v/p older working drivers (aged 30 and over
Van and professional young working drivers are most over-represented in collisions...
- 6-9am compared to v/p working drivers of all ages
- 9am-3pm compared to all v/p young drivers
- rural roads compared to v/p working drivers of all ages
- urban single A & B roads compared to all v/p young drivers
- at Give Way/Stop signs compared to v/p working drivers of all ages
- driving on bends, U-turns/reversing and turning right compared to v/p working drivers of all ages.
Of all assigned contributory factors (CFs), v/p young working drivers are most likely to contribute through observation errors.
Full report in downloadable .pdf