Posted by : Tom Doyle in (Driving & Cycling) 1st Jul, 2008
Unaccompanied learner drivers off the road
Today marked the day that it became illegal for second provisional license holders to drive unaccompanied.
I spoke about it before and my attitude has still not changed. This law is well overdue and all the silly provisional license holders who believe this is a joke, need to get a reality check.
92,000 second provisional license holders - off the road… but are they? It was kind of weird this morning, I deliberately set out to spot the number of L plates on the road this morning. I didn’t see one, granted even in bad traffic it only takes me 30 mins to get to work.
So where have they gone? Have people simply peeled off their L plates as I predicted or have they actually stopped driving their cars? I spoke to a relation of mine this morning who works in a junior school and she said that there were a lot of women who were walking in the rain with their kids, who would normally be driving.
Have we just drove these drivers underground with this new law?
They are now driving uner the ground? In some kind of mole-machine type car? Well I guess we are all a bit safer… until they have to resurface…
@Stu - hahaha - there’s always one….
Hi Tom. Have just started getting lessons and asked the instructor if the law change meant he was busier with pre-text lessons and people brushing up. He said initially there was a flurry of calls but his timetable is back to ‘normal’. My own guess is that people are just hiding their plates. We’d be lucky to see any Guards down around Rathdrum anyway and I see unaccompanied L drivers every day.
Hi Peter,
Yeah I would imagine so. It’s an absolute joke - it’s so obvious now on the roads. You can easily spot a learner, but absolutely no L plate to warn us.
Tom