The objective of this report is to present the detailed findings of a questionnaire and telephone survey of pre-driver education provision. In the first instance, a broad definition of pre-driver education was adopted and included all driver education, prior to achieving a full licence. During the early months of the project, this definition was re-focussed to exclude education received following the receipt of a provisional licence. This resulted in the following definition being used by the study: ‘Pre-driver education is used to refer to a programme of instruction intended to inform the development of attitudes and beliefs ultimately related to driving that is aimed at students who have not yet obtained a provisional drivers licence.’ The objective of the questionnaire survey was to develop an understanding of the current provision of pre-driver education in the UK and to investigate, to a lesser extent, any good practice applied by international providers. The questionnaire survey achieved an acceptable response rate of 38% from a sample of 204 questionnaires issued. The sample comprised: • all UK Road Safety Units (identified via the Local Authority Road Safety Officers’ Association (LARSOA) website – www.larsoa.org.uk); • seven UK non-government providers; and • four international organisations. A follow-up telephone survey investigated the provision of pre-driver education by the 111 road safety officers (RSOs) who did not participate in the questionnaire survey. The information collection was primarily via telephone and the requirement was to ask whether their road safety team provided pre-driver education. In addition, the interviewer invited contacts to provide a brief description of their pre-driver education interventions (e.g. target groups, education method and media, and intervention name, if applicable). Information was collected for 103 of the sample (n = 111). The combined findings of the questionnaire and telephone survey indicated that out of 173 UK road safety teams, 122 (71%) had a pre-driver education initiative in place and 51 (29%) did not. (Author/publisher) This report may be found at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/research/rsrr/theme2/predrivereduc….
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