According to statistics from the Association of British Insurers (ABI), each day Britain’s roads see four fatalities or cases of serious injury resulting from accidents involving young drivers.

Worst of the offenders are the 18-year-old drivers who cause around 50 collisions a day. This transmutes to three times more than 50-year-old drivers.

The new research confirms that young drivers are the worst culprits when it comes to driving dangerously.

The ABI’ is calling for a minimum one-year learning period for all learner drivers, and restrictions on the number of teenage passengers young novice drivers can carry.

In the US similar restrictions to those being proposed by the ABI have reduced fatal crashes among young novice drivers by up to 37%.

Nick Starling, the ABI’s director of general Insurance and health says: “Every year 50,000 seventeen-year-olds pass their driving test with less than six months driving experience. One in three of these drivers are likely to be involved in an accident within the first two years after passing their test.”

Adding: “Too often these accidents end in tragedy. Introducing a structured minimum one-year learning period, and passenger restrictions will help today’s young drivers become tomorrow’s safer motorists. We urge the Government to act now to protect young motorists and their families.”