YOUNG NOVICE DRIVERS - TOWARDS A MODEL OF THEIR ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT

There are two main purposes of this article. The first is to present a model of young drivers' accident involvement, including the most impo rtant processes in the development of their driving behaviour. The mod el describes the relations between the learning process, the individua l preconditions and the social influence and how these are related to driving behaviour and accident involvement through different processes such as skill acquisition, self assessment, information processing, f eedback and motivation. The second purpose is to present a state-of-th e-art report for the different aspects of the model by referring to so me of the literature on young drivers.