Article in Daily Wail - Driving Tests to get tougher

[NugentS]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new...

Its something we have mostly been in favour of - whether its being done right is another matter

Regards

Sean

[falcemob]

Daily Wotsit said:

The campaign to restrict young drivers – which also calls for tougher sentences for those who cause fatal crashes – follows a moving plea from Elizabeth Davidson, whose 26-year-old daughter was killed last year by a teenage driver.
Margaret Davidson's car was hit by 19-year-old Nolan Haworth at 70mph in a 50mph zone as he raced to court, while banned, to answer a charge of affray.

In September last year he was jailed for just four years after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

How is a tougher test or not letting people take the test until 18 going to stop that. More knee jerk, not thought out properly reactions by this useless government.
The only way to stop teenagers having accidents is to make the minimum driving age 20, then there will be more accidents with people in their 20s. They are only moving the problem, not solving it.

[Santa Claws]

Would make no difference.

The problem is the attitude these young people display. This will not change, no matter how many times they do laps around their local town in their lessons.

[Eliminator]

Setting aside whether changes to the test are needed, is this persons campaign the right vehicle to lead a policy for changing anything. Let's think through the basics of that.

Her daughter died in a traffic accident
Caused by ONE individual
Who was driving very badly
Well over the speed limit
While banned
On his way to Court in respect of another offence


So........

Campaigning to make the driving test harder for everyone else will make the death of her daughter mean something???????


She needs professional counselling for her grief, not a bandwagon to inflict changes of law on everyone else. The law of the country is too important to be driven by people with emotional involvement at such level that their judgement is clouded.

Personal view - feel free to disagree

[Bing o]

She'd be better off campaigning for some kind of EMP device that precludes banned drivers from getting behind the wheel of a motor vehicle...

[i want an aero]

a tougher driving test is fine as long as it means night time driving and a motorway part as well. more should be done to keep banned drivers off the road and their cars crushed