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Title: Gender, age and motor vehicles-which combination is highest risk?
Related: Australiasian College of Road Safety Annual Conference (18 - 19 September 2008 : Brisbane)
Related: Watson, Barry and Hansen, Rob. High risk road users : motivating behaviour change : what works and what doesn’t work?, p.311-322
Publisher: Brisbane : Australiasian College of Road Safety
Date: 2008
Author/Creator: Redshaw, Sarah
Description: The paper will take a global perspective on high-risk road users to begin with, considering not only motor vehicle drivers but also non-motorised users and then working back to consider young men who are probably seen as the highest risk group in Australia. But are they really? The paper will look at gender as a risk factor and age related issues drawing on statistical data from the NSW RTA and QLD Transport as well as social and cultural research from focus group studies with young drivers. Taking into consideration gender, age and the motor vehicle, the primary question of the paper will be: is gender more of a factor than age and how much of the risk factor is due to the motor vehicle itself? In combination these factors are all important and their contributions need to be more deeply examined separately and together.
Description: 12 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Young drivers
Subject Keyword: social framing
Subject Keyword: gender
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Sociology

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