AA calls for graduated driving licensing for new drivers

 

The AA is calling on the government to introduce a Graduated Driver Licence (GDL) to protect newly qualified drivers, limiting newly qualified drivers from carrying peer-age passengers for the first six months after passing their test.

·         One in five young drivers crash within a year of passing their test and 1,500+ young drivers are killed or seriously injured each year.

·         72% of AA members think a graduated licence limiting passengers is good idea.

·         Call for a Graduated Driver Licence comes as the AA launches a motoring manifesto with five key pledges.

·         Safer roads, fixing potholes, scrapping smart motorways, helping EV transition, keeping costs down, and career paths for young people in the industry, are all included.

An average of five people per day are killed on UK roads and 82 are seriously injured, but one in five young drivers crash within a year of passing their test and 1,500+ young drivers are killed or seriously injured each year.

Its asking government to make five key pledges to improve Britain’s roads.

1.      Supporting drivers: keeping motoring costs low through fuel duty freeze, better fuel price transparency and reducing Insurance Premium Tax.

2.      Sustainable future: providing the right incentives, infrastructure, and information to support the switch to zero emission vehicles. For example, helping those without on-street parking by cutting VAT for on-street EV charging.

3.      Smoother journeys: addressing the pothole crisis with ring-fenced funds and use of technology for more permanent repairs. Scrapping the failed experiment of ‘smart’ motorways.

4.      Safer roads: reducing road deaths through setting clear targets, increased roads policing and addressing the tragedy of new driver deaths through graduated licences such as restricting passengers for six months after passing their test.

Strengthening the industry: providing support to the sector to enable greater investment in innovation and skills. Maintain push for regulations to allow access to vehicle data to improve the safety, convenience, running costs and environment via connected car services.