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Hi All

As you know we are running a survey on ADUK, asking a number of questions about motoring in the UK, and advanced driving. Still only early days but here is results of one of the questions..so far.....Will be providing more over time and eventually all the results.

Probably no surprise a lack of driver education is considered the largest risk facing road safety in the UK.

Percentages are all well and good but you're going to have to provide the actual number of responses in order for it to mean anything.

cufarley wrote:Percentages are all well and good but you're going to have to provide the actual number of responses in order for it to mean anything.

The shortest category looks like 2% and a couple look like 9% which suggests that, at a minimum, there was one respondent per %.

The sample is still very small - Only 45 people have taken this over 5 days. So results are still a long way off before a real trend emerges. Will be running it for most of this year.

What about 'no simple answer'?

If lack of education is the top scoring issue,what does that mean? Does it mean people don't think new drivers can drive safely when they have just passed their test, if they choose to do so? (I believe recent drivers mostly crash when they decide to drive differently, and their confidence level has increased ahead of their skill). Does it mean the process leading up to the test does not develop habits thoroughly enough for them to be maintained after the test? Does it mean that reinforcement education is required over a driving lifetime (note the difficulty of obtaining insurance discounts for taking further driver training)? Or what?

Agree with waremark, I did not select driver education as it is not directly driver education (which to me means driving lesson) causing the problems it is learner drivers have had 17 years of bad habits built into their head from seeing parents speeding, people jumping red lights to the driving test just being seen as a hurdle to over come and once passed you can speed jump light and such like, just don't get caught.

To combat this more education in schools is needed, as well as possible restrictions for a new driver or raised age for learning, as the risk area of humans brain is not fully until mid twenties. So perhaps something like getting a provisional at 17 but you can't take a test until you have driven for over a year or are 18. Also the current set of drivers need to be re-educated, with more policing of the roads and/or stricter fines, for example an instant ban if caught using a mobile while driving. Re-testing every 10 years could also help, but would be very hard to implement.

I seem to get the survey request most times I visit this forum, and it's getting a bit annoying.

Gareth wrote:I seem to get the survey request most times I visit this forum, and it's getting a bit annoying.

How annoyed are you, where 10 is 'boils my urine' and 1 is 'here we go again'?

By 'most ', is that . . .