Car Ownership Puts Teens at High Crash Risk

Friday, December 9th, 2011 | Editor | No Comments

From CARRS-Q Safety Visions

A recent CARRS-Q survey suggests that three out of four young Queensland drivers own a vehicle within the first six months of receiving a Provisional licence, increasing their risk of being involved in a crash.

The survey findings, published in the international journal Traffic Injury Prevention, indicated that nearly 80% of inexperienced, new drivers aged 17 to 19 responding to the survey had primary access to a vehicle.

PhD Scholar Bridie Scott-Parker said research showed car ownership and high mileage led to increased rates of crashes, traffic offences and risky driving for newly independent drivers.

“We found 78.4% of young drivers with less than six months of independent driving experience had their own car despite being our newest drivers on the road,” she said.

“The first six months is the most dangerous time for new drivers. We would prefer they get experience driving in shared vehicles with parents monitoring their driving as much as possible.”

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A Little Humor for a Serious Subject

Sunday, July 31st, 2011 | Editor | No Comments

Came across these sayings on a quotes and teen driving website. It never hurts to take a little time to quietly giggle over a serious subject. Please don’t complain  to AMC, we don’t mean to offend or stereotype and certainly didn’t make these up ourselves! 🙂

  • When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.  If all the stations are rock and roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot. ~Larry Lujack
  • Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~Erma Bombeck
  • Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. ~E.B. White, One Man’s Meat, 1943
  • The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker
  • Mother Nature is providential.  She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. ~William Galvin
  • The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. ~Raymond Duncan
  • The invention of the teenager was a mistake.  Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes – naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ~Judith Martin
  • Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.  Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown
  • You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown
  • Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
  • A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries