Know the risks
Most road crashes in this country are caused by several key risk factors:
- Speed
- Alcohol and drugs
- Driver fatigue
- Driver distraction
- Giving way at intersections
- Failure to wear safety belts
If you're aged between 17 and 19, you're seven times more likely to be involved in a crash than someone in their late 40s. To improve your safety, learn more about these risk factors and what you can do to reduce them.
Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD) (external link) run a range of youth education programmes aimed to reduce the harm caused on our roads by drink drivers.
Build your driving skills
Being a safe driver takes practice - and 'Practice' is a free, practical online driving programme to help new drivers pass the restricted test. The programme is all about getting you out there and driving. The more time you spend in the driver's seat - with supervision - the safer you'll be on the road.
Check out the Practice website for:
- free online help to learn a range of driving skills from basic to advanced
- free online videos to show you how to learn key skills
- free driving manuals to help the driving guide teach, and the learner-driver achieve.
Get defensive
Passing a defensive driving course can reduce the time you need to stay on a restricted licence. These courses teach the practical skills that will help you steer clear of a crash.
Your young learner driver is about to go solo?
Check out this information from the Automobile Association for parents of learner drivers (external link) about to graduate to a restricted licence.
