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“We consider that the psychological maturity in relation to the risk is, especially in young boys, 25 years old”, underlines Anne Lavaud, general delegate of the Prévention Routière association, Wednesday on franceinfo.
“It increases the risk exposure of an age group that is already paying a heavy price on the road”explained on Wednesday June 21 on franceinfo Anne Lavaud, general delegate of the Prévention Routière association, while the government decided to lower the legal age to pass the driving license to 17 years.
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“It’s not really a very good idea, there is a problem of maturity in relation to the risks at that age, insists Anne Lavaud. It is considered that the psychological maturity in relation to the risk is, especially in young boys, 25 years and more certainly the moment of the first paternity. Between 17 and 18, it makes a difference in the expression of risk, in the fantasy that there is precisely to drive, to go fast, etc.
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne asserted that countries that have already lowered the driving age to 17 have not seen an increase in road fatalities: “I don’t have that data. I’m going to look at it with great interest. It seems a bit surprising to me”reacts the general delegate of the Prévention Routière association.
“Other adults” than parents for accompanied driving
Anne Lavaud would have preferred a reorganization of the accompanied driving system which represents 20% of driving licenses: “It can be other adults” that parents to accompany driving so “that the device exceeds this threshold of 20%. In terms of pedagogy, it is really ideal”she explains.
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Accompanied driving has, according to her, many virtues: “It means that we have an apprenticeship which is over time, which is supervised, which is stress-free for the young person who is learning to drive because indeed, he can take the wheel again if he has a moment of anxiety. “. The advantage of accompanied driving is that“You can pass your license at 17, you can drive solo on your 18th birthday. But that means you already have 3,000 kilometers under your belt”.