Support alterations to car driving test

Published: 09:40AM Feb 8th, 2012
By: Mau Spencer

With over 1.3 million bikes on Britain’s roads, a campaign has been launched to ensure bike-related questions are included in the driving test to help raise awareness of bikers on the road. Prospective car drivers can currently pass the driving test without answering a single question relating to bike riders. Shockingly, despite accounting for just 1% of road traffic, bikers fall victim to over 20% of all fatalities on the roads.

Open now for six months via the official government link, http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26272, motorcyclists and drivers alike can sign-up online.

This particular petition has been instigated by insurance company, Bennetts; Hannah Squirrell, their Director of Marketing said: “With questions currently selected at random, there is no guarantee that a question relating to bike riders will arise in the current driving test format, so our petition is set to challenge that. With the casualty rate of riders currently a staggering 61 times greater than that of motorists something must be done to increase awareness of bikers on our roads. The petition has been approved by the government and it needs to attract at least 100,000 signatures in order to have this raised in the House of Commons. Bikers are an important group of road users and it’s essential they are recognised within the driving test”.