What kind of crashes are young drivers mostly involved in?

The crashes registered in the Netherlands show that young drivers are relatively often involved in crashes in the dark and in weekend nights (see Table 1). In 2015-2019, they were slightly more often involved in urban crashes and on 60km/h roads than drivers aged 30 to 65, but less often on 80km/h roads. Young drivers were also more often involved in single-vehicle crashes than drivers aged 30 to 65. Single-vehicle crashes are crashes in which no other road user is involved, such as collisions with trees or other objects (BRON, 2015-2019).

Table 1. Characteristics of crashes of young drivers (aged 18-24) and of drivers aged 30 to 65 in 2015-2019 (BRON, 2015-2019).

An international review of research into crashes involving young drivers shows that they are relatively often involved in crashes in the dark, and on rural roads [1].