ABI urges for restrictions on passengers for young drivers
The ABI (Association of British Insurers) is calling for restrictions on the number of young passengers that young, newly qualified drivers can carry. Every year 1200 young drivers are killed or seriously injured on UK roads.
Giving evidence to the Transport Select Committee, Nick Starling, the ABI’s director of general insurance and health, said: “Inexperience is the biggest danger facing young motorists, but peer pressure is a close second. Our evidence shows that an 18 year-old novice driver is three times as likely to be involved in a collision than a driver in their forties. In the USA, the crash risk for young drivers nearly doubles with two young passengers in the car, and trebles for three passengers.”
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