{"id":121224,"date":"2023-11-12T05:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=121224"},"modified":"2023-11-12T05:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T05:22:05","slug":"new-proposals-to-let-15-and-16-year-olds-drive-are-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/auto-news\/new-proposals-to-let-15-and-16-year-olds-drive-are-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"New proposals to let 15 and 16-year-olds drive are nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Campaigners’ calls for 15 and 16-year-olds to be able to drive legally on British roads in a major rule change are bonkers with Rishi Sunak\u2019s Government quite rightly denying the plea.<\/p>\n

The Parliament petition has significant backing with more than 94,600 signatures already lending their hand to the demands.<\/p>\n

It puts poll organisers on the verge of securing a Parliament debate after arguing that the current 17-year-old threshold is \u201cunfair\u201d and inconsistent with the Equality Act 2010.<\/p>\n

The laughable claim that Britain\u2019s youth are being served an injustice for not getting access to one of the most dangerous modes of transport is comical.<\/p>\n

The simple fact is that 15 and 16-year-olds should not be trusted behind the wheel and if any changes to the law are made, the minimum age should be rising to 18 or even 21.<\/p>\n

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America and Mexico are among the only countries in the Western world to allow 16-year-olds behind the wheel and the data makes for grim reading.<\/p>\n

Data from the International Transport Forum shows road fatalities per 100,000 people are higher in the USA and Mexico than here in Britain.<\/p>\n

Statistics from Mexico show a whopping 625 15 to 17-year-olds were killed in collisions back in 2020.<\/p>\n

A whopping 1,016 were killed between the ages of 18 and 20 with just 8,197 losing their lives between the ages of 25 and 64.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s National Safety Council shows that younger motorists are over-represented in casualty data across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

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