{"id":14850,"date":"2014-02-03T22:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14850"},"modified":"2014-02-03T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:34:35","slug":"a-fifth-of-young-drivers-are-uninsured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14850","title":{"rendered":"A Fifth Of Young Drivers Are Uninsured"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to GoCompare, almost 20% of young drivers are driving around uninsured. About 80% of them are \u201cfronting\u201d \u2013 using insurance in the name of a parent when they are the main drivers. I\u2019ve written about fronting before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As unpalatable as it may be, fronting amounts to not having any insurance. If you had an accident, the insurer would refuse to pay out because the insurance would be void. The study also found that a quarter of young drivers struggled to be able to afford to run the car at all, and a third got financial help from their parents. A third also used other people\u2019s cars, imagining themselves to be covered if they had an accident.<\/p>\n

When you add it all up, I\u2019d estimate that over half of young drivers are clearly too stupid or too arrogant to deserve a licence in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to GoCompare, almost 20% of young drivers are driving around uninsured. About 80% of them are \u201cfronting\u201d \u2013 using insurance in the name of a parent when they are the main drivers. I\u2019ve written about fronting before. As unpalatable as it may be, fronting amounts to not having any insurance. If you had an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t