The Parent's Role : Facts and Figures
1 in 5 drivers crash in their first year of driving.
1 in 3 young male drivers will write off a car in their first year of driving. Young women are half as likely to do so.
1 in every 319 young male drivers will be killed or seriously injured in a car crash in the next 12 months.
1 in every 754 young female drivers will be killed or seriously injured in a car crash in the next 12 months.
In 2005 1200 young drivers were killed or seriously injured. That is more than 3 a day!
A young driver is 10 times more likely to be involved in a serious collision than a more experienced driver.
Despite making up only 10% of the licence holders in the UK young drivers are involved in 28% of all collisions that result in a death or a serious injury.
(in these statistics, a young driver is defined as a holder of a full licence under the age of 20)
This graph shows the much greater crash rate of young drivers, especially males aged 16-19 years, compared with other age groups.
Young drivers are more likely to have crashes involving loss of control of the vehicle, crashes on bends, in the dark and crashes due to inappropriate speed.
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