Young drivers may be banned from carrying anyone apart from family members in their cars, in an attempt to avoid more teenage deaths.
While there are no plans for an official legislation yet, the Department for Transport has confirmed that it has been discussed and Ministers have begun considering it.
According to the Association of British Insurers, drivers aged 17-25 are frequently responsible for a high number of road crashes and deaths.
“I read regular reports where three or four young people have been killed in a car, and it’s a new driver, and you wonder what happened,” Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told the Daily Telegraph.
“When I talk to young people who have recently passed their test, what they say sometimes is that peer pressure is put on them to go fast, to show off.”
By Sumy Sadurni
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