Petition Reduce the legal driving age to 16

Many 16 years olds are just starting to get jobs. They can’t always rely on parents/guardians or public transport to take them where they want to be. Therefore lowering the driving age should give them that independence and maturity.

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Public transport is unreliable and doesn’t take us everywhere and for those parents/guardians that work full time they make struggle to get their child where they need to be. If young people can drive a moped at 16, why not a car too?
Some say that driving a car is safer than a motorcycle due to the fact you have air bags, 4 wheels and a seatbelt to add that protection. Not only that, data from a few years ago shows that the risk of death for a motorcyclist is roughly 57 times greater than that for a car occupant, so young people are safer in cars than on motorcycles.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 5 November 2022
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