Drivers’ fury over new ‘rule’ BANNING specific passengers from your car – will you be hit by the massive change?

A PROPOSED regularisation alteration has sparked fury among younger drivers.

Last week, the AA suggested newly-qualified drivers nether the property of 21 should beryllium banned from carrying passengers of a akin age for six months aft they walk their test.

Many youngsters person been near outraged by the thought of these alleged graduated driving licences, believing they would instrumentality distant their state and the excitement of being capable to drive.

In a caller study by the BBC, Faye Cullum, 16, who has been taking driving lessons designed for nether 17s, said: "If this regularisation came into place, it wouldn't springiness maine immoderate information to thrust astatine all.

"I privation to thrust due to the fact that it gives maine a batch much freedom."

She added: "If I'm paying for my car, the insurance and the tax - wherefore should they beryllium capable to power who is allowed successful it?"

But not each youngsters consciousness this way, with Josh Jones, 18, believing determination is immoderate consciousness down the ruling.

He said: "I think, successful theory, it's a bully idea.

"A fewer months ago, 1 of my precocious schoolhouse friends died. I recovered retired that him and 2 of his friends were killed successful a roadworthy accident.

"I don't cognize however it happened. But possibly if a program similar this was successful place, that wouldn't person happened."

According to probe carried retired by the AA, a graduated driving licence could prevention astatine slightest 58 lives and forestall astir 1,000 injuries connected the road.

They besides suggested that motorists with a “G” graduated operator sheet would beryllium deed with six points if they are not wearing a seatbelt, and would truthful suffer their licence.

A fig of different countries including Australia, the US, and Sweden person already imposed these types of licences.

But portion the authorities isn't thought to beryllium considering the idea, it's an contented that has rumbled connected successful caller months.

Crystal Owen, whose 17-year-old lad Harvey drowned with 3 different teenagers erstwhile their car rolled into a ditch connected a travel to Snowdonia successful November past year, told the Sunday Times she was shocked that the UK hasn't imposed graduated licences.

She said: “I thought: ‘What the hellhole is going on? Why is this oregon immoderate mentation of it not law?’

“Their brains are not afloat formed, which is wherefore we person different restrictions connected things similar buying cigarettes.”

Owen has since co-founded the run radical Forget-me-not Families Uniting, which is calling to present postgraduate licences.

In a petition launched connected Change.org, the radical said: “With 1 successful each 5 recently qualified drivers crashing wrong their archetypal twelvemonth and young drivers being astatine higher hazard of being progressive successful a fatal clang erstwhile carrying peer-age passengers, determination is an urgent request to enactment present to prevention lives.”

However, statistic from the Department for Transport person shown that 4,959 radical were killed oregon earnestly injured successful crashes past twelvemonth involving drivers aged nether 25 – which is simply a alteration of 60% since 2004.

What's more, determination were 3,451 specified casualties successful accidents involving drivers aged 70 oregon implicit – which stands arsenic an summation of 12% implicit the aforesaid period.

Under existent rules, drivers aged 70 and implicit tin renew their licence each 3 years, though they indispensable state immoderate cognitive problems oregon hazard a good of £1,000.

AA president Edmund King said the organisation has discussed information measures astir older drivers successful the past - including mandatory oculus tests erstwhile drivers crook 70.

But helium warned that caller rules could deter older radical from driving, which could beryllium detrimental to them starring a mean life.

He said: "The car is often a lifeline for an aged idiosyncratic and they effort and mitigate their fragility - they don't thrust astatine night, they lone thrust abbreviated distances, et cetera."

"It's a lawsuit of getting the equilibrium right, arsenic it is with younger drivers."

This comes arsenic a operator asked police to 'let him off' arsenic it was his wedding time after they recovered helium had nary security connected a £200,000 Lamborghini.

The soon-to-be groom was picked up by roadworthy postulation officers pursuing 4 reports that the lime-green sports car had been speeding.

Elsewhere, a antheral who near his £50,000 Mercedes astatine a meet-and-greet parking country successful an airdrome says his car had disappeared erstwhile helium returned.