Learning to Drive

[sp1214]

What is the lower limit for either driving a car or scooter?
Is it possible to get experience via a driving school at a lower age before venturing out on the public roads?
What is the cheapest way of getting 3rd party insurance. I have heard Norwich Union do a scheme where a black box is installed to monitor your car use?

[Ethel]

Assuming you are not severely disabled, you have to be 17 to drive a car on the public highway, and 16 to ride a scooter less than 50cc.

Yes you can have off road driving lessons before you are 17, and the CBT is compulsory for the scooter.

Impossible to tell you which insurance company is the cheapest - it depends on the vehicle, where you live and too many variables to hazard a guess.

Look in your yellow pages for local driving schools that give off road lessons at 16.

[R1Geezer]

You can drive one of these under 17:

http://tinyurl.com/4gpacd

quite legally

[R1Geezer]

err dunno what happenned there!
http://tinyurl.com/52t9le

[markysngc]

yes, Bournemouth councils statement of accounts, an ideal place to start learning to drive

hehe, I hate it when I do that too :)

[Toureman]

I like your second link R1 Geezer, I think we all started on one of those.

[sp1214]

Thanks Ethel. You can understand why some sites are moderated after reading the others.