The Government have suggested under new proposals that newly qualified drivers could be restricted from carrying non-family members in an effort to cut the number of road accidents involving teenagers.
According to statistics from the Association of British Insurers an 18-year-old driver is more than three times as likely to be involved in a crash than a driver aged 48.
Mr McLoughlin told the Daily Telegraph newspaper, “I read regular reports where three or four young people have been killed in a car, and it’s a new driver, and you wonder what happened.
“When I talk to young people who have recently passed their test, what they say sometimes is that peer pressure is put on them to go fast, to show off.”
But Neil Greig, from IAM said, “Young drivers themselves admit that they are lacking experience, but we don’t believe that restricting people – such as curfews at night and restricting the number of passengers they can carry – is the way to develop that experience.
“They need the opportunities to get to learn, by doing these things, by carrying young people, by going out at night – how else can they learn?”
What is the best way to cut accidents in young drivers? Better and stricter testing or restrictions on their licence?
Nov, 19, 2012