{"id":14859,"date":"2024-11-13T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=14859"},"modified":"2024-11-11T19:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:20:32","slug":"changing-new-zealands-licensing-system-could-help-turn-around-the-countrys-shocking-crash-numbers-says-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/changing-new-zealands-licensing-system-could-help-turn-around-the-countrys-shocking-crash-numbers-says-aa\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing New Zealand\u2019s licensing system could help turn around the country\u2019s \u2018shocking crash numbers\u2019 says AA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh look at how new drivers are trained in New Zealand could be an opportunity to change driving culture and make the roads safer place, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the AA<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Identifying opportunities to improve the driver licensing system\u2019 was one of the four main actions included in the Government\u2019s Road Safety Objectives document released in October.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Ministry of Transport figures show drivers under 25 were involved in 96 of 337 fatal crashes in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving this proportion of young people being involved in fatal crashes is not the norm in other countries &#8211; people aged 18-24 are nearly three times more likely to die on the roads here than in Australia,\u201d said AA road safety spokesperson Dylan Thomsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many ways the licensing system could be changed to produce better prepared, safer drivers and, by doing that, the AA thinks we can make a real difference in turning New Zealand\u2019s shocking crash numbers around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is great to the Government looking to take action to improve how people learn to drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.co.nz\/about\/aa-research-foundation\/programmes\/driver-licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AA Research Foundation paper<\/a> identified measures with beneficial outcomes for novice drivers that could be used to strengthen New Zealand\u2019s three-stage Graduated Driver Licensing System (GDLS) after benchmarking the GDLS against overseas schemes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study has identified measures that could reduce harm on the roads, and we think they are worth taking a closer look at to see if they could work here,\u201d added Dylan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to give novice drivers the best possible chance of developing skills and habits that will make our roads safer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh look at how new drivers are trained in New Zealand could be an opportunity to change driving culture and make the roads safer place, the AA has said. \u2018Identifying opportunities to improve the driver licensing system\u2019 was one of the four main actions included in the Government\u2019s Road Safety Objectives document released in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":14860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}