car insurance for 22 year old first time driver

ontheroad1970

SoftCentaur said:

"I don't know how legal it is but I started him off driving in a large supermarket car park after closing time on a Sunday"

No .... it is not legal. You still need to be insured if the public have access to the car park. 

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/learner-drivers-run-in-with-the-law-1143783

It's something that used to be tolerated until idiots in modified superminis started doing handbrake turns around car parks.  It was never legal.

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Ok...so this looks interesting. I'll take a look around and see what quotes I can get.
And then, of course, there's the issue of whhen she buys her own car and getting insurance for that. I'll leave that conundrum for another day

Sandtree

ontheroad1970 said:

SoftCentaur said:

"I don't know how legal it is but I started him off driving in a large supermarket car park after closing time on a Sunday"

No .... it is not legal. You still need to be insured if the public have access to the car park. 

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/learner-drivers-run-in-with-the-law-1143783

It's something that used to be tolerated until idiots in modified superminis started doing handbrake turns around car parks.  It was never legal.

Back in my youth one of the industrial estates used to get closed off on the first Sunday of the month and several driving instructors used to take under 17s out for initial lessons in the area. Not sure if closing the area to the public made it legal but the council used to promote it . Speaking to my instructor later he said he made a significant loss on those lessons because what the insurers charged but obviously many turned into normal students once they got their provisional license and so he saw it as a loss leader. 

Car_54

SoftCentaur said:

"I don't know how legal it is but I started him off driving in a large supermarket car park after closing time on a Sunday"

No .... it is not legal. You still need to be insured if the public have access to the car park. 

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/learner-drivers-run-in-with-the-law-1143783

The poster hasn't said he wasn't insured.