Young drivers could be banned from carrying non-family passengers

[Jazzy]

Young drivers face a ban on carrying anyone other than family members as passengers under proposals being considered by the Government to cut the number of road accidents involving teenagers.



Other options include banning novice drivers from carrying passengers altogether.



In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr McLoughlin said he was ready to look at measures which could reduce the the number of accidents involving novice motorists and cut the cost of providing them insurance cover.



According to the Association of British Insurers, which submitted the proposals to the Department for Transport, one in eight drivers is under 25, but they account for one third of the number of people who die on the country’s roads.



It estimates that an 18-year old driver is three times more likely to be involved in a crash than a motorist 30 years older. In 2011, drivers between 17 and 19 were involved in 12,000 crashes of which more than half resulted in serious or fatal injuries.



The proposals were given a wholehearted welcome by the road safety charity, Brake. We have campaigned for many years for the Government to overhaul the system for training and testing drivers.



Placing restrictions on newly qualified drivers would signficantly improve safety and help to reduce the appalling number of serious casualties that involve inexperienced novices.

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What are your thoughts on such a ban?

 

[Evil Eye]

Try and enforce it...

 

[Jazzy]

My thoughts too EE.

 

[Evil Eye]

Ah, also, we all share an ancestor somewhere along the line, right?

 

[TommyTooter]

like with drug prohibition laws, prohibit novice drivers from carrying passengers and more people will break the law for the thrill of it.



if there is a significant problem with novice drivers, perhaps it would be wiser to revamp their driver education curriculum than to try and over-regulate the novice drivers?

 

[Sinon]

Why is it acceptable to allow them to carry family, but not friends? If you're going to create a ban like this, don't half-ass it.

 

[thecostumedanceparty]

So many problems would be solved if the driving age were just changed either to 18, or when one graduates from high school.

 

[Jazzy]

While this is off topic, can we PLEASE ban all the old people driving too? You know the ones who have to sit on a phone book just to see above the steering wheel. Oh, and the ones that don't drive over 20 MPH in a 55 MPH zone!

 

[Evil Eye]

While this is off topic, can we PLEASE ban all the old people driving too?

No. Ban everyone!

Only use public transportation. Trained professionals only!

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