Even a specialist provider of young driver car insurance may not be able to help one Lancashire youngster to get a cheap car insurance deal after he fled the scene of a booze-fuelled midnight road accident.
Graham Grundy ran away and left his girlfriend and two friends in the car after colliding head-on with another vehicle near Burnley.
Burnley Crown Court heard how 23-year-old Grundy had been drinking only hours before the smash and ran away in order to avoid being charged with drink-driving. When police attended the scene of the accident, his 17-year-old girlfriend, who tested positive for alcohol, claimed she had been driving.
Officers didn't believe her, however, and they later tracked down and arrested Grundy.
Pleading guilty to a charge of perverting the course of justice, the young father was given a six month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, ordered to complete 60 hours of unpaid work and fined £300.
A spokesman for Hoot Car Insurance Services, the young driver car insurance experts, heard about the case and commented, "Motor insurance firms are likely to be reluctant to cover a driver such as this, and the price of the premium will reflect that."