As part of the Department for Transport’s upcoming two-year road safety action plan research will be undertaken to look at the impact of limiting what less experienced drivers can do in their first few months on the road. CIHT welcomes that Government will now look in to graduated driver licensing as a measure to increase safety on England's roads.
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New drivers could face limits on what they can do on the road, to ease them into a lifetime of safe driving.
The government will commit in its road safety action plan, to be published later this week, to explore further whether graduated driver licensing — or a similar scheme — should be introduced in England.
In April CIHT recommended that Graduated driver licensing was considered in the effort to reduce the number and severity of road traffic accidents in our response to the Transport Select Committee's Road Safety Inquiry.
Read the full CIHT response here.
Announcing the initiative, Minister of State at the Department for Transport, Michael Ellis, said:
"We have some of the safest roads in the world but we are always looking at ways to make them safer.
Getting a driving licence is exciting for young people, but it can also be daunting as you’re allowed to drive on your own for the first time.
We want to explore in greater detail how graduated driver licensing, or aspects of it, can help new drivers to stay safe and reduce the number of people killed or injured on our roads."
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-looks-at-steps-to-make-new-drivers-safer
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