Introduction
There is substantial evidence and wide acceptance that young or, more accurately, inexperienced drivers represent a significant crash risk compared to older or more experienced drivers. Certainly in Victoria, results published by the Accident Research Centre using crash data, exposure data based on road-side surveys, and age as a surrogate for experience underscore the high risk of crash involvement for inexperienced drivers (Diamantopoulou, Skalova, Dyte, & Cameron, 1996). Similar findings have been reported for Victorian drivers by Procko (1996) at the Transport Research Centre.
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