Convicted Driver
Unlicensed drivers push up insurance costs
Wed, 10 May 2006
A staggering one in three teenagers has admitted being driven around by an unlicensed driver, something that is bound to be pushing up car insurance premiums for the rest of Britain's road users.
In research published by the FedEx & Brake Road Safety Academy, 36 per cent of 16 to 19-year-olds questioned said they had been a passenger in car that had been driven by an unlicensed driver, demonstrating just how reckless some young drivers are prepared to be.
The Department for Transport (DfT) estimates that young unlicensed male drivers are over ten times more likely to be involved in a car accident, putting both their passengers and other road users at risk due to their lack of adequate driving skills and experience on the roads.
The problem is made worse by the fact that many of these drivers have no car insurance as well as no licence.
And their reckless behaviour may cost them dear in the future, with convictions for dangerous driving pushing up their insurance costs and premiums for convicted driver insurance understandably higher.
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