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Could anyone shed some light on the findings of a study which the Lancashire Telegraph is creaming over in its hate campaign against young drivers. It claims that in a survey by the Lancashire Partnership for Road safety (who have taken to cold calling people asking if they had ever broken the speed limit), 50% of young drivers in the region thought it was OK to drive after drinking (the actual study says 'a drink' but of course they twisted this), yet hidden away in the archives I found that a 2006 survey by the same group states young drivers are more likely to:



How has this figure shot from 22% in 2006 to 50% in 2007, with largely the same group of people? Or is it as I suspect, that the study is seriously flawed?

Could Paul or someone please help point out to me the extent of accuracy of the groups findings, as I really need to defeat the newspaper that constantly misleads its readers about young drivers.

We need to define the actual questions asked of this group and if this stat really has increased so drastically - then Lancs needs to ask itself some hard questions as to why its young drivers hold this daft belief as it seems to indicate a serious flaw in the general education of their young.

When our Schools Liaison Officers vist the schools to educate on road safety issues, dangers of drugs/drink and actively lending support to the schools PSE programmes - they come away generally impressed with how the kids have taken to heart what we are trying to teach them overall. Sure .. we have problem areas - same as anywhere else - the hard core of what could be loosely described as the "unteachables" - but the likelihood of the suirvey picking these at random for a survey seems remote - so one then has to worry about the general standard of education and how the THINK! mesages on this are being presented to these kids.

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I don't know. The LPRS are amateur and miss the point in my experience. I cannot begin to believe that that rise is real, and must be due to differences in the way the study was conducted.

Either way, the LT have used this as ammunition for their anti young driver campaign (an original aim was to limit drivers under 25 to 50mph), and are backed by the gloriously levelheaded people at Brake ..

If you limit young drivers to 50mph they will cause accidents. they have this scheme in France and by and large its ignored. Its also hard to enforce.

When will the authorities realise that young drivers aren't high risk, they just have high risk exposure, like sports bike riders.