Driving on Provisional License

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cajef wrote: »

If you have been advising people about provisional licence applications you should have been able to tell them the necessary facts.
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Which I have done.

From where do you infer I've done anything different?

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cajef wrote: »

As someone that has been involved in driver training, all the people I have known on a provisional licence have been fully aware that they must be accompanied by a someone that has a full licence and they should be displaying L plates.

Maybe they do not also know that the person has to have held a full licence for over three years and be over twenty-one years old, but they can hardly claim to be confused about the law and driving unaccompanied especially when they have a test coming up.

Well, your experience is different to mine.

Not everyone who has a provisional has a 'test coming up' and they may not even be taking lessons.

I'll just repeat, in my experience (clearly, different to yours) it is not a rarity for provisional licince holders to not be entirely au fait with the law in this regard.

optimus_primera

Could we all please ask the OP to say where they live, just in case they are nr me .........

rev_henry

optimus_primera wrote: »

Could we all please ask the OP to say where they live, just in case they are nr me .........

Statistically Bradford lol.

DavidHayton

optimus_primera wrote: »

Could we all please ask the OP to say where they live, just in case they are nr me .........

I would worry more about the no job - no income - no asset types who seem to be able to keep a car on the road. If/when one of them hits you then you will have no recourse to anyone apart from yourself and your own insurer. If the culprit is caught, when they get hauled (yet again) before the court, next to nothing will happen to them (yet again).

David

optimus_primera

I would worry more about them if got hold of them in that senario.

optimus_primera

rev_henry wrote: »

Statistically Bradford lol.

Yeah you're right .... i forgot ......i did read the whole thread but obviously my brain started to melt ......

vaio

DavidHayton wrote: »

I would worry more about the no job - no income - no asset types who seem to be able to keep a car on the road. If/when one of them hits you then you will have no recourse to anyone apart from yourself and your own insurer. If the culprit is caught, when they get hauled (yet again) before the court, next to nothing will happen to them (yet again).

David

As long as you can identify either the car or the driver then you should go to the MIB rather than your own insurance company.

It’s still a claim on your record but at least you get to keep your NCB and (if you can identify the driver) then there is no excess to pay either

shaun_from_Africa

As long as you can identify either the car or the driver then you should go to the MIB rather than your own insurance company.

Sounds like a good plan.
Let the MIB sort it out.

BillTrac

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Sounds like a good plan.
Let the MIB sort it out.

If only...:T