Department considers change to law on unaccompanied learner drivers

The Department of Transport says it will examine possible changes to the law surrounding provisional drivers following a request from the family of two women killed in a car crash last year.

On Monday, Noel Clancy, whose wife Geraldine and daughter Louise were killed following a collision with a car driven by an unaccompanied learner motorist on December 22, 2015, called on the Government “to implement legislation so that allowing one’s car to be driven by an unaccompanied learner driver is an offence”.

Speaking outside Cork District Court where Susan Gleeson received a three-year suspended sentence for dangerous driving, Mr Clancy called for legislation that “would make the car owner and driver equally accountable in law”.