Driver Safety Education Blog

Yes, more on young driver distractions, because it is so important. I am hoping the resources found here help parents help their children.

Here is a link to a very good article on the more common young driver distractions called, 10 Driving Distractions and How To Deal With Them. It is from a series of articles from Edmunds.com.
2011/07/28 Update: Unfortunately the Edmunds link is abandoned, however, here is a very good article called, "Driving Distractions for Young Drivers", which was brought to my attention and written by friend, Paige.

From Australia, RACQ (Royal Automobile Club of Queensland) has a very good search page regarding Driver Distractions.

CBS had a good report back in 2007 called, Study Cites Teen Driver Distraction Danger. It is a good read and mentions items not covered elsewhere.

From Monash University Accident Research Centre in Australia, there are a number of good links to distracted driver studies called, Driver Distraction (including mobile phones).

From a site called Young Driver Awareness, in Australia I believe, we have this very good distracted driver article called, Young Driver Awareness.

From Safer Calgary there is a PDF file about distracted driving. Here is the link, http://www.safercalgary.ca/pdf/Safer_Calgary_Distracted_Driving.pdf.

There is a huge amount of information available for new young drivers, if only they would seek it out. But most don't. So it is up to us to seek it out and have training sessions armed with the knowledge we have gained. I don't mind learning at all, so I find the opportunity to find new information and pass it along to my young driver a great way to help him learn and to discuss the new information with the "whys" and "what fors".

It seems, from my research, that gadgets or passengers are the variables which contribute the most to young driver collisions.
Good luck with your young driver discussions and training.

Drive safe...

Cheers - Mike