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The hard-hitting Safe Drive Stay Alive road safety initiative returned to the north-east for the fifth consecutive year in November. The award-winning scheme presents pupils approaching driving age with a thought-provoking mixture of video footage and live presentations charting the devastating effects of a fatal car crash.
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All seven Community Safety groups in Aberdeenshire are offering young drivers (under 25 years old) £100 towards the cost of the Pass Plus driving course. This is in addition to the £45 already provided by Aberdeenshire Council (subject to qualification) reducing to a few pounds the cost to the young drivers themselves*.
Pass Plus will improve your driving, give you valuable driving experience, improve your confidence, go beyond the driving test and reduce the chances of you becoming involved in a road traffic collision. It could also result in lower car insurance costs, as more and more insurance companies are offering discounts for new drivers with a Pass Plus certificate.
*The cost of taking the Pass Plus course is usually £150 and upwards. Aberdeenshire Council currently provide a grant of £45 to any Aberdeenshire resident who has passed their driving test in the past 12 months and who successfully completes the Pass Plus course.
Find out more about Pass Plus.
Find out how you can save money on your car insurance.
Read what young drivers think about the benefits of the Pass Plus course.
To apply please e-mail your contact details (address including your post code and a telephone number),
age (date of birth), driving licence number, the date you passed your driving test and tell us where you heard about our
financial support for Pass Plus to: passplus@aberdeenshirecommunitysafety.org.uk
Please note that, to qualify for financial support, you must apply for funding BEFORE arranging the course. Support
will be provided for as long as funds last.
Young drivers are among the most enthusiastic about driving and their cars, so a new Press & Journal campaign will be coupled with a challenge to them to demonstrate their theoretical and practical driving skills in a competition to find the P&J Young Driver of the Year. |
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The Garioch & North Marr Community Safety Group sponsored a young driver from Inverurie to take the IAM course and the test in order to assess the benefits for young drivers.
Find out about the IAM driving test.
All of the Community Safety Groups in Aberdeenshire have been promoting Pass Plus for young folk who have recently passed their driving tests. Pass Plus gives new drivers experience of a wide variety of road conditions and can give a reduction in car insurance costs.
Find out more about Pass Plus and how you can get help towards the cost.
Read about the benefits of Pass Plus as seen by young Aberdeenshire drivers including real savings made on car insurance by real drivers.
You are three times more likely to be killed on a rural road than an urban one whilst in a car.
Find out how to drive safely on rural roads.The seven Community Safety Groups in Aberdeenshire have expressed concern regarding the large number of road traffic collisions in the North East of Scotland. We are particularly concerned about the number of young people, newly qualified drivers and their passengers, who have been killed or injured on North East roads.
In 2006, 40% of the fatalities were 25 years or under.
We feel that the only way to help prevent this carnage is to introduce strict regulations for newly qualified drivers so that they get the opportunity to gain driving experience after they pass the driving test. Such regulations could include:As a consequence, a letter has been sent to all Members of Parliament in the North of Scotland urging them to press for the law to be changed with regard to newly qualified drivers.
A copy of the letter and an attachment (the OECD’s Transport Research
Centre document entitled "Young Drivers, The Road to Safety" published earlier this
year) is available online.
Give us your opinion of how safe is the A96 between Aberdeen and Inverness and what could be done to improve it by filling in our A96 questionnaire.
Read comments on the A96 from Local MSPs.