Enhanced Pass Plus: WHY?

Positives

  • Driving is fun – learn to do it safely!
  • Impress your peers by safe driving!
  • Possibility of cheaper insurance!
  • Save money on fuel bills!
  • Build on what you know and develop your own style of driving!

Negatives

  • It is your licence only you can lose it!
  • 6 points in two years and you WILL have to retake your test in full
  • How much is insurance with no accidents and a clean licence?
  • Do you want a criminal record that stays with you for 5 years?

The chance of an incident is less for those who attend Pass Plus due to raised awareness and advanced driver skills that in the main are never taught to the learner driver.

A few statistics on newly qualified drivers between 16 and 24 years old

  • Nationally around 28% of people killed or seriously injured are in this age group
  • Young drivers are twice as likely to die in a road crash when carrying passengers there own age
  • 15% of road deaths involve a driver who is over the legal alcohol/drug level
  • using a mobile phone slows your reaction time down by up to 50% increasing your chance of crashing by 400%

Do you know?

  1. How to deal with peer pressure in the car;
  2. How drink and drugs affect you and your driving;
  3. How fatigue and concentration affects you and driving;
  4. How to choose the correct speed for any type of road;
  5. The correct way to approach and judge bends for the correct speed;
  6. How to use motorways and how they differ from dual carriageways;
  7. How using a mobile can affect your driving.

The Enhanced Pass plus scheme has been introduced by NYCC to promote Road Safety and try to bring down the number of killed or seriously injured young drivers.

North Yorkshire County Council has joined forces with the 95 Alive York & North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership to deliver an Enhanced Pass Plus scheme for newly qualified drivers.

The North Yorkshire scheme differs from Pass Plus by insisting that pupils attend a discussion group to discover why newly qualified drivers crash and examine their attitudes to risk taking and driving.

Approved driving instructors (ADIs) who register onto the scheme also have to go through a special training procedure where they look at the causes of crashes involving newly qualified drivers.

Pupils taking part in Enhanced Pass Plus will receive a 50% discount equating to £87.00 contribution towards six training hours.

Cllr John Fort, executive member for road safety, said: ”The whole point of this scheme is to take a step forward, to give new drivers a more realistic idea of the threats and responsibilities of driving on our roads. To make putting safety first as automatic as putting on a seat belt and looking in the mirrors.”

David Clark, who will be training the ADIs, added: ”As teenagers we all felt we were invincible and sadly sometimes it takes something to happen close to home to make us realise just how dangerous driving can be. I feel that this scheme addresses a need that has until now been missing.”

See original article at http://www.roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/876.html