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Department of Transport publishes consultation document on driver training! Just as there is increasing evidence of how well Graduated Driving Licences with restrictions work, the proposals have dismissed this system to improve road safety. Instead it recommends more exhortations to drive safely alongside teaching road safety in schools. Who is qualified to do this and why will this work better than schools anti-drugs education or safe sex education? Younger children will happily produce projects on the subject but will they actually put these into practice when they are newly-qualified drivers? Please contact your MPs and urge them to listen to informed opinion and their own Transport Select Committee. |
HOW TO CURB SELF-CONFESSED SPEEDERS
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Scots could pilot a
Graduated Driving Licence Details of the ideas that Scotland is keen to try unlike English Transport Ministers! Part One Part Two |
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Learn and Live is very saddened to learn of the death of Gwyneth Dunwoody,
Chair of the Transport Select Committee and a strong fighter for all Road
Safety matters. She always refused to bow down to political expediency and made no distinction between political parties. She will be sorely missed by anyone who was passionate about reducing death and injury on our roads. A recent TSC Report recommended a more structured approach to learning to drive. They want a year of compulsory driving lessons Raising the age of unaccompanied driving to 18 A ban on newly qualified drivers carrying young passengers (10-20) between 11p.m. and 5a.m. likewise a zero alcohol level Learn and Live has been campaigning for this type of structured system since 1990. We agree with the Transport Commitee that no lives will be saved unless the Police are on the ground to enforce these restrictions. |
Minister announces possible changes to the UK Driver Training System. Unless this incorporates a Graduated Driving Licence any measures are doomed to failure. Learn and Live says "increasing supervised practice is welcome if it is compulsory. "The Driving Standards Agency already takes Arrive Alive into schools and log books are already used by driving instructors. School driver education has already failed to save lives abroad." "A GRADUATED DRIVING LICENCE WITH RESTRICTIONS ON THE CARRIAGE OF OTHER YOUNG PASSENGERS IS THE ONLY MEASURE SHOWN TO BE EFFECTIVE." See the following news items! MPs call for curbs on young drivers limit on young passengers Welsh young driver crash rates UK insurers seek curfews |
| ACCIDENT RATE INCREASING A Norwich Union press report states that young driver accidents rates have increased. Claims by young drivers have gone up by more than 300% over the last 5 years. Claims involving drivers over 23 have fallen by 10% during the same period. This increase is caused by drink driving and passenger distraction! |
California Research proves the benefits of restricting the carriage of young passengers with inexperienced young drivers. Passenger restrictions became law for new teenage drivers in 1998. Passengers with young drivers have reduced by 25%, it is estimated that this has saved 8 lives and 684 injuries over 3 years. |
CANNABIS DRIVING RISK Norwegian Research has shown that driving with even a low concentration of cannabis in the blood increases the risk of becoming responsible in fatal and injury crashes. The more you have in your blood stream, the more likely you are to crash. |
Warning for parents of novice drivers! Car drivers qualified after 1st January 1997. You could be driving unlicensed and uninsured if you have not taken an additional test for category B+E (and all larger vehicles). Get DVLA formD100 or Check with an expert. |
Ontario
considers increasing restrictions on learner and novice
drivers. Already holding the safest records for novice drivers, Ontario is seriously proposing dropping Blood Alcohol levels drop to zero for drivers under 21 banning the use of mobile phones limiting the carriage of young passengers |
Some recent research findings about young
drivers young female drivers a scheme to teach safe driving and passenger behaviour contributing factors in teenage crashes named drivers failing to insure legally |
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