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I'm guilty.
I put my daughters in cheap older secondhand cars when they first got their licences.
No thought for safety in those days.
ANCAP didn't form until 1993.
Maturity brings more sense - maybe or maybe not.
We are not letting the same thing happen to our grandchildren.
We have two grandchildren who have learners licences.
A criteria we set to help with the car was an ANCAP rating of at least four stars.
Now obviously most people can't afford to purchase new or near new cars for their kids or grand kids.
But the later the model, the safer the car is, remembering that say five stars in 2010 would equate to about two or three stars today.
When ANCAP ratings started to bite car manufacturers sat up and listened.
Even older ANCAP rated cars are safer than no ANCAP rating at all.
Well, what will it cost you ask?
You can pick up a five star rated 10-year-old car for between $5000 and $10,000.
The Centre for Road Safety in an interview I did suggested that the more experienced parents should drive the older car while their inexperienced children be given their newer, safer late model car.
I suppose the question can only be: how important is your child or grandchild's safety?
The it-won't-happen-to-me mentality just doesn't cut it.
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