{"id":15181,"date":"2025-07-11T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=15181"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:40:26","slug":"young-drivers-committing-fewer-traffic-offences-but-road-deaths-remain-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/young-drivers-committing-fewer-traffic-offences-but-road-deaths-remain-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Young drivers committing fewer traffic offences but road deaths remain high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young drivers are committing around 40% fewer traffic offences than a decade ago but more work is needed to address high youth fatality rates from road crashes, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AA<\/a> in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the AA Research Foundation released a report into traffic offences involving young people aged 15-19 years old which that showed a substantial decline in offending between 2009 and 2013. The Foundation has recently gathered the latest data showing this downward trend has continued to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFactoring in the substantial increase in young drivers over that time, overall offending rates have fallen by 41%, drunk and drugged driving by 58% and seatbelt offences by 52%,\u201d said AA road safety spokesperson Dylan Thomsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a real positive and demonstrates that we are heading in the right direction with the various road safety initiatives and legislative and policy changes that have been undertaken over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the downward trend in offending, youth fatality rates from road crashes have also fallen but Dylan said they still remain tragically high.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThese figures show we need to be focusing on more than just enforcement to bring crash rates down even further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand currently has about 90 deaths and 600 serious injuries a year from crashes where a young driver is judged to be at fault, according to Ministry of Transport data.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan said the AA see the latest data as timely with the Government currently considering changes to the Graduated Driver Licensing System.<\/p>\n<p>While the AA supports some of the changes being proposed, it is also calling for; the learner period to be increased from six to 12 months, a minimum 60 hours practice with a supervisor across a range of conditions on a learner license and professional training incentivized by accelerating progress through the practice hours system &#8211; for example crediting two or three hours following a one-hour session with a professional instructor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young drivers are committing around 40% fewer traffic offences than a decade ago but more work is needed to address high youth fatality rates from road crashes, according to the AA in New Zealand. In 2016, the AA Research Foundation released a report into traffic offences involving young people aged 15-19 years old which that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":15182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15181","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\/15181","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=15181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}