Jerseygirl

How can you be a safe driver...you are 15...you don't even have a driving licence yet!

Gozit

Parents let me drive on the country roads occasionally. They say i'm a safe driver, and i know all the stuff for my test, just waiting the 4 months to take it

Jerseygirl

Your parents allow you to drive without insurance?

Sorry but that means nothing IMO. Get 10+ years with no accidents etc under your belt with a full driving licence before you can proclaim yourself a safe driver.

chris955

Ah now that changes everything, I had absolutely no idea he was 15. I assumed he was a licensed driver with at least a couple of years under his belt.

christmasoompa

Costco here (UK) has packs of 20 bags of Walkers for less than £2 - I bought some a couple of days ago. £1.83 if memory serves me correctly.

Pollyana

My niece is 19 and she pays about the same or maybe a bit less, has a small car like a Focus. I can't remember the actual company she is with but she went through Comparethemarket.com - the Meerkat people!

rebs

Thanks - that's very useful

Sally Redux

I was amazed that people let their kids do that back in LA too.


Gozit must be using an imagined scenario on the websites anyway.

Bahtatboy

I also use comparethemarket.com: good interface, seems to give very competitive quotes, and is quick. Both my wife and daughter got their car insurance through it, plus we just renewed our house insurance. My wife and daughter also love the meerkats

bigglesworth

I usually use Churchill. They used to give you a nodding Churchill dog if you asked for a quote.
It gave me great pleasure to give it to my (American) sister and envisage it nodding away on the back shelf of her very expensive car in the US.
Which she did do!

chris955

I was beginning to think it was a figment of my imagination

Pollyana

They do it in Australia too, sad thing here is that parents seem to allow their kids as young as 11 or 12 to drive powerful V8 engined cars. The accidnt rate is shocking, and its very common for kids to injure or kill themselves and their friends driving powerful cars on dirt roads and farm tracks. I remember one not long back, 15 year old girl killed herself, her 13 year old sister, and her 15 year old mate. She lost control of the car and it rolled, apparently she used to drive the 3 f them 5 miles each day to the school bus stop. I expressed my frustration at the parents for allowing her to do it and got really savaged by people at work who said its normal parctice, they all did it as kids and in the eyes of most locals there's absolutely nothing wrong with letting kids drive as soon as they can reach the pedals.

Gozit

Thanks, yeah i'd be driving something like a Picanto or focus or similar.

An imagined scenario, yes, but the exact details i'd put in if I was a newly licensed driver who just moved to the UK.

And I never drive without one of my parents in the car - just on roads out in the country with little traffic. They've only started letting me do this this past month or so, because with 4 months to go until i'm licensed, the age is just a number at this point.

I'll check that out too

Gozit

That scenario is wrong, agreed. You shouldn't let an unlicensed child drive 5 miles every day.

When I drive, i'm talking a few kilometres down an old country road with little traffic and my mum or dad in the car with me.

Jerseygirl

Makes no difference you should not be driving on public roads. You are not insured and you are breaking the law.