How many driving lessons does a learner have to complete before applying for his car licence in Norway ?
October 30, 2009 | Safety
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A learner must complete an obligatory 12 hours of driving lessons (used to be 7). However, many teachers suggest even up to 20 hours.
I’m not too sure about statistics regarding the accident rate, but I know it has gone down a good deal since driving lessons became compulsory. The average number of killed or seriously wounded people has been around 250 the past couple years. However, a new record was set in 2008 when it came to young drivers getting killed in accidents.
“Personer drept” means people killed and “Personer skadd” means people wounded. The only numbers you would really need to look at are those furthest to the left under “Ulykker i alt”. That’s the total amount. As you can see, all in all, the accident rates have gone done since 1998.
Hope this helps.
I’m assuming you’re talking about a car license. The other issue is lessons or driving lessons?
The requirement is
Step 1 - a compulsory basic course of 17 x 45 minute sessions in road traffic knowledge
Step 2 - basic vehicle handling skills, no compulsory time element, but there is a compulsory assessment of the drivers capabilities at the end of this section
Step 3 - Road skills, this has a mandatory 4 x 45 minute sessions including a minimum of 2 x 45 minutes of the learner driving on a skid pan. Again this concludes with a mandatory guidance and assessment session.
Step 4 - On the road safety - minimum of 13 x 45 minute lessons, including a minimum of 9 x 45 minutes of the learner driving
This is then followed by a theory test and a practical driving test of over an hour.
The recommendation is 2000km or 110 hours of practice driving prior to taking a test, but that is ability dependent.
In general the relevant risk rates in young drivers has sunk since the introduction of the compulsory structure, with a halving between 1979 and 1990 amongst 18-19 years olds of a relative risk of 6.77 coming down to 3.68, amongst older drivers (20-24) the drop was less marked.
One of the results of research was to ease up the restrictions on non-professional tuition as it was found that it’s the quantity of instruction and experience that matters more than the professional level of the instructor.
Most of the info in in Norwegian I’m afraid, but you can find references to the norwegian research in a quite a few australian sources.