The BC Coroners Service is calling for a review of the province’s graduated licensing program after releasing staggering results on the number of young drivers killed every year.
Looking at the deaths of 106 young drivers from 2004 to 2013 crashes, Their report says that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death of young people between the ages of 15 and 18, though the report also says that deaths have declined since the graduated program was introduced in 1998.
The report, written by experts in health, law enforcement, and driving safety wants to see safety become the top consideration for setting speed limits and is questioning the province’s push to raise some speed limits on BC highways.
Most of the drivers that died were male, between 17 and 18 years of age, according to the study, which found speed, inexperience, and impairment as some of the lead contributing factors.
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