Survey of Pre-driver Education

The objective of the questionnaire survey was to develop an understanding of the current provision of pre-driver education in the UK and to investigate, to a lesser extent, any good practice applied by international providers.

The questionnaire survey achieved an acceptable response rate of 38% from a sample of 204 questionnaires issued. The sample comprised:
• all UK Road Safety Units
• seven UK non-government providers
• four international organisations.

A follow-up telephone survey investigated the provision of pre-driver education by the 111 road safety officers (RSOs) who did not participate in the questionnaire survey.

The information collection was primarily via telephone and the requirement was to ask whether their road safety team provided pre-driver education.

In addition, the interviewer invited contacts to provide a brief description of their pre-driver education interventions (e.g. target groups, education method and media, and
intervention name, if applicable).

The combined findings of the questionnaire and telephone survey indicated that out
of 173 UK road safety teams, 122 (71%) had a pre-driver education initiative in place and 51 (29%) did not.