No win no fee lawyers urge young drivers to slow down
No win no fee solicitors have revealed that a new craze is taking hold of young drivers, resulting in car accidents.
A report exposed a new phenomenon called ‘speed dating’, which unlike the common practice of moving from table to table with a note pad and timer in order to find a future lover, it involves driving at speed to impress a date.
Road safety experts revealed that a number of young drivers were breaking speed limits in pedestrian areas and even driving down motorways in the wrong direction in order to make an impact on a member of the opposite gender. Much like a peacock shows off his feathers to a female companion, drivers were showing off their vehicles.
Most of the young drivers taking part in these dangerous driving acts were male and research shows that this aggressive style of driving is the result of male testosterone, although some females were also taking risks.
However, in a controversial move, police stated that they would rather educate the motorists on road issues and car accidents, rather than issue penalty points, fines and jail sentences.
Reports have shown that car accidents are the prime cause for teens and young adult’s death, with six out of 10 drivers killed in crashes. Therefore, education is a vital source to help keeping the roads safe.
No win no fee solicitor, Alex Boxall agreed that education is the way to go, “Young drivers should be made aware about the perils of reckless driving so that they don't participate in risk-taking behaviour and put themselves and others in danger of being involved in car accidents.
“We see far too many people having to make no win, no fee claims because they have been harmed through someone else's act of carelessness.”
Education, education, education
The revelation has shocked many in local communities and there have even been cries for the legal driving age to be increased to 18-years-old and for the year preceding the proposed legal driving age to be used as a time to practice driving skills and get educated about road safety.
Therefore, the work of the Arrive Alive campaign, the Driving Standards Agency's winning road safety programme, were also highlighted.
Teenagers were shown video footage of serious car crashes involving young people and even witnessed a reconstruction of a young couple's experience of sustaining serious personal injuries in a road accident.
In a further attempt to help educate young drivers, a new scheme has been launched to help teen motorists understand the importance of responsible driving.
The programme, named ‘Strapped for Cash’, urges teens to wear seatbelts whilst driving. The agents visited schools at the end of the day, when young drivers were getting ready to go home. They encouraged those not wearing seatbelts to consider the consequences of their actions, if they were involved in a crash.
One agent, Rick Bailey stated: “October is the deadliest month of the year, statistically, for teens. More teens killed in auto accidents in October than any other month. Two out of three teens killed while driving, are without their seat belt buckled. So this program is to help them realize the importance of buckling up.”
Updated on 10/22/2009