About Our Advanced Training For Young Drivers

You will have frequently heard about young drivers being a high risk road user group, and this will have been supported if you have ever helps a young driver when they are looking to by car insurance. But do you know by how much young driver’s really are at risk?

Statistically, one in three young male drivers will write off a car they are driving within the first year of passing their driving test, whilst the rate among females is one in six.

25% of all court convictions for causing death by dangerous driving involve drivers under 20–years of age, even though this age group represents just 3% of all drivers.

25% of drivers under the age of 21–years will crash through losing control of the car they are driving.

These statistics prove the point that young drivers are a significantly high risk group, but why is this the case? Is there anything that can be done to improve the situation?

The Flaws in The Learner System

The problem of to how to improve road safety for young drivers is one that has generated much conversation. Whilst all those in a position of authority and responsibility over the learner driver training system express their concern, nothing substantial is done to solve it.

True, the driving test system gets changed slightly, little by little, with small elements being adjusted and some slightly new features added, but all this is merely chasing the symptoms of an inadequate system, instead of dealing with the source.

To get high grade results in people going through a training system the learning content of that training system has to be at a high grade and delivered by trainers more highly qualified than the demands of the course. That is obviously not happening.

The Level of Driver Training Required by Driving Instructors

Standard driving instructors do not have to undertake any driver training during the process of becoming qualified. They do not have available to them any higher grade driver training to become a Pass Plus provider and only become Pass Plus providers by paying a fee.

Many driving instructors structure their learner lessons to only cover known driving test routes specific to their area and will only include elements to their training enough to satisfy particular examiners. Indeed, and until recently, driving test routes were available to download from the Internet. Officially, this has now been stopped.

This is not teaching new drivers how to drive, but merely how to pass a driving test. New drivers themselves don’t help the situation though, as the popular trend is to go from first drive to test pass in as short a space of time as possible, and this pushes driving schools to cut corners.

Learner driving schools often streamline their training input to cover the bare minimum, in order to secure a quick test pass, so as to be able to move on quickly to the next student. Unfortunately, it becomes something of a conveyor belt system where quality of training is less important than racking up numbers.

Where Are The Risks to Young Drivers? Again looking at statistics, young drivers are more prone to crashing their cars on rural roads and during the hours of darkness than at any other time. Whilst and advanced driving course is possibly not the complete answer, the fact is that most learner driver training takes place in built up areas, during the day and general driving instructors do not have the skills with which to teach their students how to read a road. New drivers tend to be very much ill–equipped to deal with a rural environments. Rural road driving, of course, becomes even more difficult to drive in the dark. Having more than one young person in a car increases risk, especially when boys are involved. With a flow of testosterone and young male ego, adolescent bravado can cloud judgement and lead to risk taking.		Advanced Driver Training for Young Drivers in Buckinghamshire The Buckinghamshire County Council young driver road safety initiative for 17–24–year olds who have passed their driving test in the last 12–months and who live in the Bucks County Council Local Authority Area.

Features of The Ride Drive Young Driver Safety Course

There are fundamental omissions in the learner driver syllabus, which the Ride Drive young driver safety course addresses. Top of the list comes observation, which in the case of nearly all qualified drivers, both young and experienced, is nearly always found to be woefully inadequate.

By stretching the eyes to scan the road environment far ahead, and by introducing a strategy by which to plan progress on the road, the young driver has the opportunity to become so very much more danger aware.

Anticipation skills are developed and threat awareness calculated by what can be seen, what cannot be seen and what circumstances may reasonably be expected to develop. How to read the road, assess a bend before reaching it, maintaining the balance of the car and the timing of braking and application of power are all further aspects delivered and which are not to be found in learner driving lessons.

Defensive positioning, space management, and of course the all important and expertly delivered motorway driver training, will be included too. Input concerning third party perception is given, which concerns the opinion formed by others, influenced by a display of behaviour behind the wheel.

These are all what can be properly termed as The Missing Bits and can only come from people who have received the highest grade road driver training anywhere. The British emergency services; particularly the police service. That is our background.

The Roadcraft Driving System – The Most Effective Way to Drive

The Ride Drive young driver safety course is delivered to the Roadcraft system, which comes from police driver training. It provides a simple to follow strategy that once learned can be used universally for every conceivable occurrence.

In most road collision cases involving young drivers the fundamental cause will be that of drivers getting themselves into a situation they are not equipped to deal with. With a robust and easy to follow mind–programming, delivered from high grade training, the young driver will have a whole range of new tools in their driver skills tool box and therefore will be better equipped to remain safe.

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About Our Advanced Training For Young Drivers