However, when testing the model on young or otherwise “high-risk” drivers, different structural relations may emerge because in such a group risky personality traits may be accentuated and thus relate more directly to accidents. For young people, risky personality traits may be a small but significant factor implicated proximally in their accident risk.
The vast majority of youngsters in this country earn their driving license upon reaching legal age, meaning that being older also usually means having more experience (in the model also the covariation between the two variables was very high). Driving experience was operationalized as years since earning the driving license rather than miles driven, which increases the association between age and this variable. Age had a negative correlation with Ordinary Violations, confirming previous evidence that driving improves with maturity and experience (from Risky and aggressive driving in young adults: Personality matters)
In the present study, the maximum age-specific incidence value was registered at the age of 17 at 1.7 per 1000 subjects, which was comparable with another study, where a peak value of approximately 1.3 per 1000 subjects aged 15–19 was reported.
A possible explanation for there being such a high impact among young motorcycle drivers is that, when aged 18 or less, they enter traffic in a different and new way, shifting from “protected” bicycle lanes to normal traffic lanes (where they have to pay attention to different categories of road users). Further, they have limited experience of handling dangerous and suddenly risky situations in relation to other road users. Other reasons for the significantly increased risk of motorcycle injury at these ages is a tendency to high-speed behaviour and/or underestimation of speed consequences, and also a willingness to break the law and violate the rules of safe riding (from Socioeconomic differences and motorcycle injuries: Age at risk and injury severity among young drivers A Swedish nationwide cohort ...)
The vast majority of youngsters in this country earn their driving license upon reaching legal age, meaning that being older also usually means having more experience (in the model also the covariation between the two variables was very high). Driving experience was operationalized as years since earning the driving license rather than miles driven, which increases the association between age and this variable. Age had a negative correlation with Ordinary Violations, confirming previous evidence that driving improves with maturity and experience (from Risky and aggressive driving in young adults: Personality matters)
In the present study, the maximum age-specific incidence value was registered at the age of 17 at 1.7 per 1000 subjects, which was comparable with another study, where a peak value of approximately 1.3 per 1000 subjects aged 15–19 was reported.
A possible explanation for there being such a high impact among young motorcycle drivers is that, when aged 18 or less, they enter traffic in a different and new way, shifting from “protected” bicycle lanes to normal traffic lanes (where they have to pay attention to different categories of road users). Further, they have limited experience of handling dangerous and suddenly risky situations in relation to other road users. Other reasons for the significantly increased risk of motorcycle injury at these ages is a tendency to high-speed behaviour and/or underestimation of speed consequences, and also a willingness to break the law and violate the rules of safe riding (from Socioeconomic differences and motorcycle injuries: Age at risk and injury severity among young drivers A Swedish nationwide cohort ...)