Young driver car insurance news
19/05/2008
Learner 'L-plate' debate backed by Hoot
Government proposals to improve the learner driver system and critics who are fighting for better measures to protect L-plate motorists are both being backed by a young driver car insurance firm.
A three-month consultation period has begun about the ideas which aim to ensure learners are trained to be safer when they go behind the wheel solo.
The consultation covers the following:
- Safety tests at school for young people aged under 17
- Updating and strengthening the theory test
- In-depth practical driving tests, better focusing on driving unsupervised
- Improved feedback after test assessments
- Better standards imposed for driving instructors
- Driving instructor syllabus with driving at night and in bad weather assessed
- Testing for road hazards will be honed and strengthened
- More opportunities will be created to better develop skills and experience after passing driving tests
In addition, the male-dominated minority of young drivers that have been found to be responsible for crashes will also be targeted in a further consultation.
Some critics say the measures are not sufficient and are demanding more action including restrictions on youngsters driving licences for the first-year of "inexperienced" motoring (such as banning them from powerful cars), also displaying a P-plate for that time and still having to be accompanied by a qualified driver.
A Hoot Car Insurance Services spokesperson said, "All these proposed measures must be welcomed - we mustn't forget that the debate on improving learner driver skill is often about saving young people's lives on the road. So many are still risking death. Proposals like these could make a real difference."
The team at Hoot, experts in young driver car insurance, has been concerned that not enough seems to have been done in the past to best cut the death toll of young drivers on our roads.
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