Investigating the Impact of Hazard Management Training on Young Novice Drivers’ Speed Management Skills and Vice Versa: A Driving Simulator Study

A lack of Hazard Management (HM) and Speed Management (SM) skills have been identified as a leading factor in young novice drivers’ road crash involvement. Despite the success of individual training programmes targeting these two skills, their generalizability to one another remains unclear. Hence, the aim of the present research was to address this limitation. Ninety young novice drivers were randomly divided into five different training groups, and following training, their HM and SM skills were assessed on two different occasions in a fixed-based driving simulator. The result revealed that HM and SM training improved their targeted skill; however, no generalization of training was evident. These findings emphasise the need for a new training technique that could improve these two critical road safety skills among young novice drivers.