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  SEAT Young Driver helps disabled teens learn to drive 8 Feb 2012 (News)
  SEAT Young Driver has paired up with Autoadapt - a company specialising in adapting vehicles for disabled users - to enable wheelchair users to get behind the wheel. Seven of the new dual control Ibizas will be fitted with Carospeed floor
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  Young Driver Training Vital in Improving Road Safety 7 Dec 2011 (News)
  , was no longer "fit for purpose", and Pass Plus was only reducing crashes by young drivers by 1%. What is needed is better training towards a more realistic test, and post-test continued education of young drivers in order to instill in them the basic skills, observation and defensive driving techniques
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  Young Marmalade launches new ‘Intelligent’ system 24 Jan 2012 (News)
    Young Marmalade, a company specialising in insurance for young drivers, has launched its new ‘Intelligent Marmalade’ system, which
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  Young drivers 'can cut insurance costs' 10 Jun 2008 (News)
  Young and newly qualified drivers are being advised how to cut car and van insurance costs by an industry expert. The advice comes as research by comparison site Moneysupermarket.com has shown that there are huge discrepancies in the price of cover depending on a driver's age and gender
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  IAM Young Driver Initiative Aims To save Young Lives 20 Jan 2011 (News)
  -development training. In road safety terms, this confines 17-25 year-old drivers – who suffer (proportionally) the greatest number of deaths and injuries – to improvement by trial and error. There is now substantial evidence that post-test training reduces young driver fatalities
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  IAM Launches Young Driver Attitude Report 1 Jan 2012 (News)
  The Institute of Advanced Motorists has launched a report, 'The fast and the curious": young people’s attitudes to driver training. Sixty-two per cent of young male novice drivers think they are more skilful than the average driver, according to the IAM’s latest
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  Safe Young Drivers Should be Rewarded, says the IAM 11 Jan 2012 (News)
  The IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) is calling on the government to work with insurers to offer discounts on premiums for young drivers who take further driver training, ahead of the Transport Select Committee’s report on the cost of motor insurance, published
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  Co-op Insurance Launches Black Box Scheme For Young Drivers 16 Mar 2011 (News)
  The Co-operative Insurance has today launched a new Young Driver motor insurance product, which calculates premiums based on the driving behaviours of 17 - 25 year olds. Young drivers will be rewarded for safer driving. 'Pay How You Drive' will be on average £328 cheaper than competitor
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  ABD: i-kube scheme could lower or increase cost of young driver insurance 9 Dec 2009 (News)
  Young drivers seeking cheap car insurance have been targeted by a Young Marmalade scheme that could either lower or increase the price of cover. Motaquote and RSA Insurance Group have introduced the i-kube
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  Young Driver Day at Porsche Centre, Silverstone, 15th May 28 Apr 2011 (News)
  The IAM, the UK’s leading independent road safety charity, is holding a young driver skills day at Silverstone Porsche centre on 15 May 2011. The day will involve a series of driving activities designed to challenge and improve young driver’s skills in a safe and fun
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  Peugeot’s latest Just Add Fuel model for young drivers 14 Jan 2013 (News)
  The latest car to be added to Peugeot’s Just Add Fuel scheme is the 208 1.0 VTi, which Peugeot is aiming at young drivers aged from 21-years-old. Just Add Fuel allows buyers to pay one monthly bill
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  96% of younger drivers feel priced off the road 11 Oct 2011 (News)
  A survey commissioned by the Transport Select Committee reveals that 96% of young drivers feel that punitive insurance costs are pricing them off the road. Such high means that 21% of young drivers have considered driving without insurance
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  Proof not all young drivers are reckless 25 May 2012 (News)
  iKube , the UK’s longest running provider of black box, telematics based insurance, has collated the data gathered by its black box systems and it shows that not all young drivers are reckless. Indeed, iKube has rewarded 75
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  SEAT Young Driver scheme goes green 18 May 2011 (News)
  SEAT Young Driver, which offers driving lessons to youngsters from 11 to 16 years old, has just taken delivery of a brand new fleet of SEAT Ibiza Ecomotives. Featuring fuel-saving technology such as an engine stop/start system and brake energy recovery, the Ibiza Ecomotive is among
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  Accident rate lower among drivers who get a head start 23 Nov 2012 (News)
  A survey has shown that the accident rate among teenage drivers who have participated in the SEAT Young Driver programme is lower after six months behind the wheel than it is among those who haven’t. The programme allows youngsters to get behind the wheel
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  Britain’s young drivers feel ‘invulnerable’ 25 Apr 2014 (News)
  According to a survey commissioned by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), 71 per cent of young drivers aged 18-25 think they are better than the average driver. Three quaters  of young males and 68 per cent of young women polled claimed to be better than average
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  89% of young drivers don't take enough lessons 21 Feb 2012 (News)
  to female drivers* 89% of young drivers take less than the recommended 40 hours of driving lessons Young drivers change their driving style depending on their passengers – driving less safely with friends but more cautiously with parents 35% of young drivers admitted
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  YOUNG DRIVERS SUPPORT MORE TRAINING BEFORE THEIR TEST 7 May 2008 (News)
  their practical test and get on the road at 17. The young people questioned in the IAM poll* also said that they would support moves to introduce a psychological profile test, as part of the theory test. The move could weed out the small percentage of potentially dangerous drivers
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  Minister threatens Christmas purge on young drink drivers 9 Dec 2010 (News)
  Road Safety Minister Mike Penning today threatened "no mercy" on drunk 17-25 year old drivers over the Christmas period. They have been targeted as the most likely to cause carnage on the roads over the festive season. Getting into a car driven by a 17-25 year old drunk driver has
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  Another Young Driver Scheme Launches, at Goodwood 13 May 2010 (News)
  with today’s demanding public roads and driving conditions. This new ‘Mini Drivers @ Goodwood’ youth driver training programme will be unique in using a genuine race track as its dedicated base, with fleet of brand new Mini One models fitted with dual controls to teach young drivers