Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities, 2018 Ivers et al., 2009 Scott-Parker & Oviedo-Trespalacios, 2017), each study has examined different age groups and used different measures, making it difficult to obtain a consistent picture of how common risky driving is among young drivers.
While a number of Australian studies have looked at risky driving among young drivers (e.g. As peer relationships are particularly important to teens, young drivers may also perceive greater peer pressure to take risks on the road compared to older drivers (Scott-Parker, Watson, King, & Hyde, 2014). Inexperienced drivers commonly underestimate the risks associated with particular driving behaviours or situations and overestimate their capacity to deal with them, which can result in them driving in a dangerous manner (Braitman et al., 2008, Cavallo & Triggs, 1996). Research suggests that the areas of the brain concerned with impulse control, planning and decision making are still developing in teenagers, which may contribute to their engagement in risky or impulsive behaviours (Paus, 2005 Sowell, Thompson, Holmes, Jernigan, & Toga, 1999). at night), and driving smaller and/or older vehicles with fewer safety features (CARRS-Q, 2017).
These include driver inexperience (Braitman, Kirley, McCartt & Chaudhary, 2008), risky driving behaviours such as speeding and driving without a seatbelt (Ivers et al., 2009), driving more frequently at high-risk times (e.g. A range of factors have been linked to the higher rate of injuries and deaths among young drivers. Young drivers continue to be over-represented among road crash victims - more than one in five drivers killed in 2016 were aged 17-25 years (BITRE, 2018), and one in four drivers seriously injured belonged to this age group (BITRE, 2019).ĭrivers are at their highest risk of being involved in a crash during their first year of driving unsupervised (Lee, Simons-Morton, Klauer, Ouimet, & Dingus, 2011 VicRoads, 2005).
If we divide 150 by 20, we get the unit rate for the ratio 150 minutes for every 20 miles.If we look in column C, we can see that her pace is 7.5 minutes per mile.If we look in column F, we can see that she is running 8 miles every 60 minutes (which is 1 hour), so she is running 8 miles per hour.If we look in column B, we can see that she could run 2 miles in 15 minutes.If we look in column E, we can see that it would take her 45 minutes to run 6 miles.The other columns contain multiples of the values in column B. The values in column C were found by dividing both values in column B by 2. The values in column B were found by dividing both values in column A by 10.