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Safe mobility for young people

4 October 2024

The RAC Foundation has been involved with various organisations in exploring the case for adopting some form of licensing for newly qualified young drivers that would ease them more safely than is currently the case into the world of motoring beyond passing their practical driving test.

Such a scheme is often known as ‘graduated driver licensing’ (GDL), and in some cases ‘progressive driver licensing’.

Many countries have adopted GDL in various forms to help protect new young drivers, their passengers and other road users they encounter.

The RAC Foundation have drafted a note setting out a firm proposal  which, whilst not set in stone, should help focus debate and start to crystallise opinion around a practical and proportionate form of GDL for this country.

In this analysis road casualty data from 2022 is used to determine the benefits of GDL. The proposal will be updated with recently published 2023 data in due course.

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