Lewis Moghul, 22, was found to be more than three times the legal alcohol limit
Both Dr Box and Dr Helman believe graduated driving licences could stop between 20% and 40% of crashes involving young drivers, who currently account for a fifth of all road deaths and serious injuries in the UK each year.
If someone is already breaking a law regarding driving, what’s to stop them from breaking another?
This isn’t a news article. It’s literally propaganda to instill support for what they’re planning. If you notice, you weren’t the target audience. The sob story they lead with, the driver would have been out of any graduated license program already by his age, and later in the article they mention he’s already aged out of the group they want to do this to.
The “another” law in question
Graduated driving licences could see a minimum supervised learning period, curfews and a limit to the number of passengers new drivers can carry.
Of course reckless drivers who were going to drive drunk won’t respect these either, but also these are laws that can dissuade parents from giving/lending their cars. Surprisingly a bunch of parents are oblivious to their kids drinking and driving patterns, but a blanket ruling like this might help.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Three young men smile for a photo in the pub - 45 minutes later, two of them are dead.Lewis Moghul, 22, was found to be more than three times the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his red BMW 225D MSport, killing himself and his 19-year-old passenger Sammy Phillips.One witness described the car as travelling at “insane” speeds before it left the road and smashed into trees in Oxfordshire in February last year.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data for the UK also reveals men under the age of 25 are four times more likely to be caught drug-driving - and twice as likely to be caught drink-driving.Sammy’s older brother Jamie Morris, 25, told the BBC he feared the combination of young men and cars was “lethal”.Watch on BBC iPlayer: Drive Fast Die YoungJamie, from Llangynog, Wales, said he remembered “hyperventilating” when he learned of his brother’s death.
Government casualty statistics state “young male car drivers are four times as likely to be killed or seriously injured” compared with all older drivers.Dr Elizabeth Box, RAC Foundation research director and transport psychologist, cited evidence that young male brains develop “at a slightly different rate” to females.She said this made them more likely to take risks, especially in social situations.
Both Dr Box and Dr Helman believe graduated driving licences could stop between 20% and 40% of crashes involving young drivers, who currently account for a fifth of all road deaths and serious injuries in the UK each year.Graduated driving licences could see a minimum supervised learning period, curfews and a limit to the number of passengers new drivers can carry.Dr Helman said for all young people, carrying passengers of their own age in a “party car” scenario increased the risk.
She wants to see greater sentencing powers and graduated driving licences and said behaviour that puts other people’s lives at risk was a crime.
As part of its investigation into the disproportionate number of young men killed or causing the deaths of others on the roads, the BBC uncovered an alarming trend of young men filming themselves driving dangerously and posting their exploits on social media for “likes”.Judge Francis Sheridan, who has overseen a number of high profile criminal cases involving road deaths, has described this as “a serious development”.
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The driving isn’t the problem. It never is.
