Urban cowboys to face tough 4WD driving test (SMH.com.au)

The report on national road safety, tabled in Parliament yesterday, urges the Federal Government to develop a national licensing system, targeting owners of four-wheel-drives and caravans. “Driving conditions in these vehicles are sufficiently different from those in standard cars to warrant such an approach,” the report says.

The article also states:

Analysis published last year by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau found that over the nine years to 1998 the number of fatal four-wheel drive crashes rose 85 per cent.

I was going to go on a bit of a rant about SUVs which are purchased for city-only use, but I found a good one already written. Think a SUV is safer? Think again.