Most young female motorists are foxy and responsible in my experience but the accident statistics paint a different picture for young male drivers.
So to hear this morning that one in five young drivers, including women, may be on our roads without car insurance for female motorists is truly worrying.
But the VED system should surely prevent this happening and we all know when renewing our car tax that both our MOT and motor insurance cover are checked.
Now perhaps this news story is an August ‘no news story’ written for a provocative insurance company to get into the much coveted Google News but I was reminded of when I was at a Unipart Car Care Centre Panel meeting earlier this year and the owner of female friendly Cavalier Garages in Manchester explained that one of his customers, a young woman driver, was evidently surprised to hear that she needed motor insurance for her new (used) car.
I wasn’t sure about this story at the time but clearly it has legs!
I sincerely hope that there is no leniency for stupid young drivers of either gender because there is no excuse for their ignorance – they are old enough to drive and they passed the driving test didn’t they? And the implications of this for others are too awful to consider…
One area that the insurance company might be trying to highlight is the trend for parents to insure their child’s car in their name with their son or daughter shown as a second driver (when they are really the main driver). They do this for cost reasons and because they don’t understand why they shouldn’t.
But there should be no excuses in law for stupidity, either way. All this does is give foxy lady drivers a bad and rarely founded name.
FOXY Steph
