Young male and female drivers in Staffordshire are piloting a new scheme that uses black boxes to record driver behaviour, according to reports.

Staffordshire county council claims that one in five newly qualified drivers will crash within the first six months of passing their driving test and the new scheme will monitor late braking, swerving or if drivers take a corner too fast.

Inside the car, warning lights will appear to alert the drivers, while the information will be sent to a website for the drivers' parents to see.

"At first I wasn't too happy about the thought that my dad could watch how I was driving, but I'm getting used to it and it's making a real difference," 18-year-old Steph Harris, from Bignall End, told the BBC.

The female driver admitted she drove too quickly and added that she thought "most people" her age do.

The free pilot scheme is being run by the county's Road Safety Unit.

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