Research noteDriving experience and the risk of traffic accident among motorcyclists
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2020, Journal of Safety ResearchCitation Excerpt :In our study, longer combined duration of holding a rider learner permit and restricted license decreased the risk of crashing. Similar to our findings, previous studies have shown that increased riding experience, measured in years of riding, has a protective effect on motorcycle rider crashes (Lin, Chang, Pai, & Keyl, 2003; Wong et al., 1990). This has been attributed to greater experience resulting in higher risk awareness, detection of hazards in the road environment, and assessment of the risk of crash compared to less experienced riders (Bellet & Banet, 2012).
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2013, Accident Analysis and PreventionCitation Excerpt :This result coincides with that obtained by Haque et al. (2009), who state that inexperienced riders overestimate their riding skills and underestimate risks approaching hazards with inappropriate actions. Likewise, the results obtained in the current study and in Haque et al. (2009) are in line with those obtained by Lin et al. (2003), Lin and Kraus (2009), Liu et al. (2009), Machin and Sankey (2008) and Wong et al. (1990) in their studies on crash risk and crash severity. So, motorcyclists with low experience have previously been found to be a factor that increases crash risk, crash severity, at-fault crashes and, from this study, can also be considered to be a factor that increases the probability of committing offences prior to the traffic accident.
Stereotype threat and hazard perception among provisional license drivers
2013, Accident Analysis and PreventionCitation Excerpt :A variety of psychosocial and attitudinal factors are also known to contribute to the accident rate among young drivers, including impaired risk perception (Clarke et al., 2005), risk-taking attitudes (Ulleberg and Rundmo, 2003, 2008), lower self-control and heightened levels of aggression (Begg and Langley, 2004), higher levels of anxiety, reward-sensitivity and sensation-seeking (Scott-Parker et al., 2012b), higher susceptibility to peer pressure (Lin and Fearn, 2003; Scott-Parker et al., 2012a), and an optimism bias (White et al., 2011), such that young drivers generally believe they will be less likely to have a traffic accident than their peers. The factor most widely thought to be associated with the increased accident risk among young drivers and PLDs is, however, their relative inexperience, and their consequent lack of driving skill compared to other driver groups (Ginsburg et al., 2008; Hartos et al., 2001; Wong et al., 1990). Lam (2003b) has shown, for example, that learner drivers with less experience have notably higher crash rates than those with more experience, suggesting that there is a linear or asymptotic increase in driving skill as a function of time behind the wheel.