Young and Novice Drivers

Slourc Aggregated data from the WHO Mortality database WHO Statistical Informatioii System (WHOSIS), httpJ/wm/3y. mifwhosi9. 

Fatality Rate per 100 Million Vehicle Miles Traveled 

In this figure the accident likelihood per driver are noted for each age group by calculating the ratio of the total number of crashes in each age group relative to the number of drivers in that group. The top (lightest) line is restricted to drivers who are in their first year of driving, the 

In contrast to these results, a plot of tiie crash involvement for non-culpable drivers did not reveal any difference between the first year drivers and the more experienced drivers. In fact, the age effect alone was very small and crashes decreased with age in a very linear fashion from roughly 0.10 crashes per driver per year at the age of 16 to roughly 0.05 crashes per driver per year at the age of 55, regardless of years of driving. 

it appears that both age and experience play a role in the risk of causing an accident, at least on the basis of police-cited culpability. Based on fiiese Canadian data the effects of age are much more gradual and extend at least to age 35, whereas tiie effects of experience are much greater and are almost exclusively limited to the first year of driving. 

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