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Hazard anticipation of young novice drivers - SWOV

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In 1987 the fatal crash rate (involvement in crashes that result in at least one<br />

fatality per billion driver kilometres) <strong>of</strong> <strong>young</strong> female <strong>drivers</strong> (aged 18-24)<br />

was twice the fatal crash rate <strong>of</strong> middle-aged <strong>drivers</strong> <strong>of</strong> both sexes (aged 30-<br />

59). In this year, this relative risk ratio was 4.4 for <strong>young</strong> male <strong>drivers</strong> (aged<br />

18-24). In 2008, the relative risk ratio <strong>of</strong> <strong>young</strong> female car <strong>drivers</strong> was 2.5 and<br />

13.3 for <strong>young</strong> male <strong>drivers</strong>. In all years, the risk ratio <strong>of</strong> <strong>young</strong> female<br />

<strong>drivers</strong> was lower than the risk ratio <strong>of</strong> <strong>young</strong> male <strong>drivers</strong> and remained<br />

more or less constant over the years (slightly more than 2 times the crash rate<br />

<strong>of</strong> middle-aged driver). In contrast, the risk ratio <strong>of</strong> <strong>young</strong> male <strong>drivers</strong> has<br />

increased over the years. It seems as if generic road safety improvements<br />

over time (safer cars, safer roads) have had less impact on <strong>young</strong> male<br />

<strong>drivers</strong> than on <strong>young</strong> female <strong>drivers</strong> in the Netherlands.<br />

Drivers can have a crash in which no other road users are involved (e.g.<br />

when they drive against a tree). This type <strong>of</strong> crash is called a single-vehicle<br />

crash. A driver can also collide with another car. These are the car-car<br />

crashes. And a driver can collide with other types <strong>of</strong> vehicles, including<br />

pedestrians. These are the car-other type <strong>of</strong> vehicle crashes. In a fatal singlevehicle<br />

crash, a driver can kill her or himself and/or her or his passenger(s).<br />

In a car-car crash the fatalities can be in the other car, the own car or in both.<br />

In a car-other vehicle type crash the fatalities can be in the own car, the other<br />

vehicle or in both. Fatal crashes are crashes with at least one fatality. Table<br />

2.1 shows the degree in which <strong>young</strong> male <strong>drivers</strong> cause more physical<br />

damage to themselves and other road users than <strong>young</strong> female <strong>drivers</strong> do.<br />

Using Dutch data from 2004-2008, the fatality ratios (number <strong>of</strong> fatal crashes<br />

per distance driven) for <strong>young</strong> males <strong>drivers</strong> were divided by the fatality<br />

rates for <strong>young</strong> female <strong>drivers</strong>. This relative fatality ratio (<strong>young</strong> male<br />

driver/<strong>young</strong> female driver) is presented for single-vehicle crashes, car-car<br />

crashes and car-other type <strong>of</strong> vehicle crashes. Table 2.1 also presents the<br />

relative fatality ratios <strong>of</strong> being killed by <strong>young</strong> male <strong>drivers</strong> in car-car crashes<br />

and car-other type <strong>of</strong> vehicle crashes.<br />

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