'You're so used to having someone tell you what to do': Experiences of young drivers during the provisional licence phase

摘要

Objective: Young drivers are at considerable risk of injury and fatality during the earliest years of independent driving (provisional/intermediate/restricted/probationary licence). Interventions such as graduated driver licensing (GDL) are designed to ameliorate this risk by allowing young drivers to gain on-road driving experience under conditions of reduced risk (eg., night-time passenger restrictions in Queensland, Australia). Consistent with systems thinking, to maximise the effectiveness of interventions such as GDL it is essential that experiences of young drivers is understood. The aim of the research is to explore the experiences of young drivers with a provisional driver's licence, within the current young driver road safety system in Queensland.