A YOUNG Driver Day will be held at Callington Community College today (Thursday), aimed at year 12 students. The programme has been designed to inform and influence the next generation of drivers, allowing them to make educated decisions about safer driving. In 2006 in Cornwall there were 594 car and motorcycle casualties aged 17 to 24. Seven of these young car driver casualties occurred in Callington. Carol Wright, the county council's senior road safety project coordinator, said: 'Young drivers in the 17 to 24 year old age range are a very vulnerable, inexperienced group, involved in disproportionately high numbers of collisions and research indicates one in five drivers have a collision in the first year after passing their driving test.' The young driver education programme highlights these issues in a one day series of hard-hitting classroom workshops designed to appeal to students in this age group. The work is activity-based using DVDs, worksheets, problem solving exercises, role play, practical demonstrations and discussions on knowledge, attitudes and risk perception.
