Bedford Driving Lessons

Texting while driving and listening to iPods are increasingly to blame for fatal road accidents, according to safety campaigners. They claim young drivers in particular ignore new laws introduced in 2003 that make using a mobile phone while at the wheel illegal. A major safety conference will be told today that more young drivers are dying on Britain’s roads than 15 years ago. Tune into Traffic also claim young people are more likely to die in a car crash than to be stabbed, abused or neglected. Overall death rates on the roads have fallen by a third since the mid-1990s but 16 per cent more 16-19-year-olds drivers are being killed today. Campaigners want new initiatives on road safety to focus on the dangers of texting or fidding with an iPod while driving or cycling. Tune into Traffic, an online campaign group, wants the Green Cross Code’s traditional ‘Stop, Look, Listen’ message to be updated. It insists young drivers need to be warned about the dangers of listening to music and not being alert while at the wheel. Founder Manpreet Darroch said: Road traffic collisions are the biggest cause of death among young people and, from our own observations and what young people are telling us, the distraction posed by these devices is huge.’More