Behavior and Attitude Linked to Driving Accidents
In the last four years, the death rate among young drivers has more than doubled, and every hour a person age 25 and under is killed or seriously injured in a driving accident. It’s surprising to note that more young people die annually in driving accidents than from overdosing on drugs.
Traditional driving tests haven’t stayed up with this trend. For instance, current driving tests don’t require people to drive in hazardous weather or drive at night when most young people have driving accidents.
Nick Rowley, a young father of three boys chose to do something about this discrepancy and started the a2om academy, Britain's first university-affiliated driving school. The school believes that it is behavior and attitude that cause driving accidents rather than the lack of technical skill previously thought.
For example, boys drive dangerously when there are girls in the car and not because they can't execute a three-point turn. Along with Cranfield University, a2om is the first driving school to use psychometry (measuring behavior) in its teaching. They also use neuroscience to accelerate the development rate of the frontal lobe, the crucial part of the brain that can anticipate risk.
Fundamental Changes in How People Learn to Drive
The frontal lobe of our brain doesn’t mature until the age of 25, says Rowley. It is why young drivers are more likely to have a driving accident. Poor driving behavior is the cause of 95% of driving accidents.
Until innovative driving programs such as a2om become the norm, driving accidents will continue to happen and cause great teenage and young adult injury. Contact Seeger Weiss if you or a loved one has been tragically injured in a driving accident.
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