A leading insurance company may have come up with a scheme that rewards rather than punishes newly qualified teenage drivers.
Insurance giant Swinton have begun offering special six-month polices aimed at those who have just passed their test. The selling point comes in the form of a 30% discount should you make it through those first six months without claiming, rising to 45% after 18 months. This news is sure to excite young drivers who have had to contend with astronomical car insurance premiums for many years.
According to a spokesman for the AA, one of the UK’s biggest brokers, around half of all insurers are refusing to even quote for 17-year-olds.