He was quoted up to £17,325.54 for cover for 1 year!

This seems a bit steep especially as the Vauxhall Corsa he bought only cost £2,000 meaning he would have to work flat out in a good job all year in order to afford to insure his car – and that doesn’t take into account any running costs…

Although it seems completely insane to charge these premiums, there are a number of factors here:

• 17 to 20 year old male drivers are 10 times more likely to have a serious injury or die while driving than older drivers
• 1 in 5 young drivers has a crash within 6 months of passing their test
• The insurance industry has been hit by rising numbers of claims and fraudulent claims which all increase the base cost of car insurance

So, how do young drivers get cheap car insurance?

In the current economic climate, there are things you can try in order to keep premiums down:

1. Visit comparison sites like Quotezone to get the best deal for your car insurance
2. Complete the pass plus course as there are insurers and brokers who have deals where pass plus acts like having a 1 year no claims bonus or no claims discount.  Again, these factors are taken into consideration by quote comparison sites like Quotezone but you can ring brokers directly if you really need to

So there you have it.  2 ways to reduce the premium paid for your car insurance – hopefully you will have more luck finding cheap car insurance than the poor guy in the story

A partnership between transport giant Fed-Ex and the UK road saftey charity Brake has produced a successful
program aimed at teenagers and presented by Andy Milne. Teenagers at Sandhurst School are receiving regular information from Mr Milne, a successful local driving instructor with
over 10 years experience.

The teenagers are taught about the dangers of drink driving and so called drug driving. Substances that impair your
judgement are more likely to make you crash or cause an accident and unfortunately the consequences are quite often fatal.

Young drivers are also actively encouraged to wear seat belts. It not only protects all the passengers from harm in an
accident but my avoid large and costly third party claims which will mean very high insurance prices in the future.