Hoons in Australia?
Nov 5th 2002, 3:12 am
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Hoons in Australia?
The well educated young people in Aussie love their moters , jolly japesters?
Young hoons just 'Aussie culture'
By Kelly Nicholls
05nov02
DANGEROUS driving was encouraged in Australian culture and killed hundreds of young people each year, a research director has said.
The University of Western Sydney (UWS) and motoring body NRMA are researching why young people tend to drive dangerously.
More than 400 people, aged 25 and under, have died in motor accidents in Australia between January and September this year.
NSW has the highest death rate for this age group, with 115 deaths this year.
UWS's Transforming Drivers project director Sarah Redshaw said if parents drove with speed they could expect their children to do the same.
"They watch them (their parents) drive their whole life, they teach them to drive," Ms Redshaw said today.
"In a sense they (young people) are expressing, in extreme ways, what they see others doing.
"There are a lot of things in our culture that encourage speeding."
Ms Redshaw said the culture of speeding must be changed to save lives, and discussions with young people yielded comments such as speeding needed to become "uncool".
Also, young people often had too many distractions while driving, something that may have cost six young men their lives in an horrific accident in Kangaroo Valley last month, Ms Redshaw said.
The $500,000 Transforming Drivers project will examine the impact of car advertising, gender and social attitudes on the behaviour of young drivers in NSW.
NRMA chief executive Rob Carter said the research was crucial.
"With 17- to 20-year-old drivers three times more likely to be involved in a serious crash than drivers over 21, we need to gain a better understanding of what's influencing their behaviour," Mr Carter said.
Last year, 2,451 drivers aged between 17 and 20 were killed or injured on NSW roads.
Ms Redshaw said the project aimed to encourage young people to think about factors that affected their driving.
"Car handling skills aren't necessarily the problem, it's more often social attitudes," she said.
"Aggressive and competitive driving is common and there's general acceptance of things like speeding."
Young hoons just 'Aussie culture'
By Kelly Nicholls
05nov02
DANGEROUS driving was encouraged in Australian culture and killed hundreds of young people each year, a research director has said.
The University of Western Sydney (UWS) and motoring body NRMA are researching why young people tend to drive dangerously.
More than 400 people, aged 25 and under, have died in motor accidents in Australia between January and September this year.
NSW has the highest death rate for this age group, with 115 deaths this year.
UWS's Transforming Drivers project director Sarah Redshaw said if parents drove with speed they could expect their children to do the same.
"They watch them (their parents) drive their whole life, they teach them to drive," Ms Redshaw said today.
"In a sense they (young people) are expressing, in extreme ways, what they see others doing.
"There are a lot of things in our culture that encourage speeding."
Ms Redshaw said the culture of speeding must be changed to save lives, and discussions with young people yielded comments such as speeding needed to become "uncool".
Also, young people often had too many distractions while driving, something that may have cost six young men their lives in an horrific accident in Kangaroo Valley last month, Ms Redshaw said.
The $500,000 Transforming Drivers project will examine the impact of car advertising, gender and social attitudes on the behaviour of young drivers in NSW.
NRMA chief executive Rob Carter said the research was crucial.
"With 17- to 20-year-old drivers three times more likely to be involved in a serious crash than drivers over 21, we need to gain a better understanding of what's influencing their behaviour," Mr Carter said.
Last year, 2,451 drivers aged between 17 and 20 were killed or injured on NSW roads.
Ms Redshaw said the project aimed to encourage young people to think about factors that affected their driving.
"Car handling skills aren't necessarily the problem, it's more often social attitudes," she said.
"Aggressive and competitive driving is common and there's general acceptance of things like speeding."
Nov 5th 2002, 3:53 am
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You Hoon!
Don't you just love the word Hoon? ... I thought this was funny when I first heard the term over here. It's something which my old Grandfather would have said... very old fashioned. "Hoons!" "you young hoon you" 
we get "Hoons" (boy racers, or not to be sexist.. girl racers too) here with us in Redcliffe each weekend... apparently there was even a web site advertising Hoon meetings in Redcliffe. Big problem here with us... the law has been changed this end.. police can now seize their car for "Hooning"
cheers
we get "Hoons" (boy racers, or not to be sexist.. girl racers too) here with us in Redcliffe each weekend... apparently there was even a web site advertising Hoon meetings in Redcliffe. Big problem here with us... the law has been changed this end.. police can now seize their car for "Hooning"
cheers
Nov 5th 2002, 4:51 am
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Serious issue. Public Transport or lack of it contributes to so many kids pressureing parents to get them a car at 17. How else do they get about? Most parents have just spent 17 years in a car ferrying them about, so kids win and get the car, (often a fairly old and unsafe bomb). i reckon they should raise the driving age having seen this age group almost daily at my house, many are totally irresponsible. Seems to be endless reports of teens (boys and girls) killing themselves, there was at least 3 carloads last month alone.
