Combating Youth Speeding: a Televised Intervention Approach
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INTRODUCTION Speeding is a significant issue for the young drivers of NSW. Despite 17–25 year-old drivers only representing 15% of licence holders during 2007, approximately 40% of all speeding controllers were identified as young drivers [1]. Young male drivers were particularly over-represented, being involved in approximately 25% of all speed-related crashes resulting in casualties; the equivalent statistic for young female drivers was 11% [1].
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