{"id":4515,"date":"2017-11-01T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onemoresecond.net\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2017-11-01T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:14:52","slug":"racq-most-teens-have-witnessed-parents-taking-risks-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/racq-most-teens-have-witnessed-parents-taking-risks-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"RACQ: Most teens have witnessed parents taking risks on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of young drivers have seen their parents engaging in risky driving behaviour, according to research carried out by Queensland motoring body RACQ.<\/p>\n<p>RACQ\u2019s Young Driver Survey found that almost 90% of drivers under 25 have witnessed their parents drive while tired. Additionally, 88% have seen their parents speeding and 72% have seen a parent using a phone while driving. Parents have been seen driving without a seatbelt by 14%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cP platers are 17% more likely to speed and drive fatigued if they\u2019ve seen their parents doing it, and they\u2019re 14% more likely to drive without a seatbelt,\u201d said RACQ\u2019s Paul Turner. \u201cIt goes to show parents need to be on their best behaviour behind the wheel, not just when they\u2019re teaching their children to drive, but every time they\u2019re in the car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents need to know that engaging in these risky driving behaviours not only endangers lives when the kids are in the car with you, but when they\u2019re driving by themselves as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of young drivers have seen their parents engaging in risky driving behaviour, according to research carried out by Queensland motoring body RACQ. RACQ\u2019s Young Driver Survey found that almost 90% of drivers under 25 have witnessed their parents drive while tired. Additionally, 88% have seen their parents speeding and 72% have seen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-teens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}