So you want to be a boy racer?

If you want cheap young driver car insurance, in fact, if you want any car insurance at all, you'd better give this career path a miss.

We're not talking about following in the footsteps of Lewis Hamilton here either, we're talking about a sub-culture of young people, usually males, in their late-teens to early twenties who think it is hilarious and super-cool to screech around city streets in their souped-up motors, undertaking, tailgating and generally driving in an aggressive, overtly reckless style.

Look we don't want to sound like your Dad, but it really isn't big and it certainly isn't clever, when you end up killing your best mate in a car accident after speeding along a country road at midnight and losing control of the steering, just for a split second. We're not being dramatic here, that's the reality of it.

Statistics in the media constantly show that young male drivers are more likely to have a road traffic accident whilst driving than any other motoring group and this is reflected in the high pricing of young driver car insurance.

A statistical report Young Drivers: The Road to Safety was published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) after research into statistics regarding young drivers.

Young male drivers

  • One in three road accidents involves men under the age of 20.
  • Young male drivers - despite passing the driving test more easily than females - are involved in a higher number of accidents.
  • If involved in an accident, a male driver aged 17-20 years is nine times more likely to be at fault than a driver aged 31-40 years with the same length of driving experience.
Passengers
  • More women aged 17-19 years die as passengers than as drivers.
  • Young drivers are twice as likely to die in a road crash when carrying passengers of their own age, with one young passenger making an accident twice as likely, two or more making it five times as likely.

General
  • For every 10 young drivers that are killed, more than 13 other people are likely die in the same crashes.
  • 78% of all young drivers - and 83% of young males - described themselves as 'confident' or 'very confident' drivers.
  • 40% admitted to breaking the speed limit 'regularly' or 'quite often'.
  • Drivers aged 21-25 years no longer consider themselves young. They see the phrase 'young driver' as relating to length of driving experience rather than age.
  • Over 1000 young lives are lost each year on UK roads.
  • One in five drivers crash within their first year of driving and 26% of convictions for causing death by dangerous driving are against under 21s.
Hoot young driver car insurance
We want to be able to find you cheap motor insurance, but these grim statistics are the reason young men have to pay highly.

Being a boy racer is not a good career or lifestyle choice. You may pay with more than money if you are involved in a car accident.

Hoot is an online car insurance company, meaning we help you by keeping our overheads as low as possible. So, now it's time for you to help us. Drive safe. Simple!

Call us today and see if we can save you some money on your young driver car insurance or click on the get a quote button now.