Młodzi kierowcy a bezpieczeństwo ruchu drogowego
Young Drivers and Road Traffic Safety

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to present an analysis of the participation of young driversin road traffic and their impact on the level of safety in this sphere of public life, and toidentify the role of safety culture in preparing inexperienced drivers for safe road travel.Young drivers are a particularly vulnerable group of road traffic participants. Thisvulnerability is due to the fact that they pose by far the greatest risk to themselves,their passengers and other road users. Young drivers have the highest accident rateper 10,000 population and, at the same time, the highest casualty rate per million. Ithas been assumed that this state is largely due to the characteristic features of youngdrivers which increase the risk of traffic accidents. In view of the above, the subject ofthis article is the human factor in all its complexity. The method used for the researchwas the analysis of the literature on the subject and available statistical data.

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