'Increase driving age' to reduce car insurance claims

Calls to increase the legal driving age to 18 in a bid to improve safety and potentially cut car insurance claims have received support from a transport organisation.

The Road Safety Group has lent its support to a report created by MPs which outlines a number of ways in which driver safety could be improved, the Visitor reports.

According to the report, the legal driving age should be raised to 18 and learners should be given a set syllabus by their driving instructor while also being required to sit additional hazard perception training.

This could help new motorists avoid accidents and car insurance claims as a result.

MPs have also proposed extensions to the amount of training learner drivers receive and called for all tests to be taken in dual-control vehicles.

Recently, road safety charity Brake discovered that almost half of teenage car passengers had been in a vehicle where the driver was drunk or under the influence of drugs.

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