A learner driver in Letterkenny is to appear in court after being caught without an accompanying driver with a full licence.
Gardaí with the Roads Policing Unit detected the Volkswagen Polo driver who was travelling with a passenger who didn’t hold a licence. The car was seized.
Gardaí have revealed that an average of eight vehicles a day were seized across Ireland from unaccompanied learner drivers in the past two months.
Records show that 377 unaccompanied learner drivers have been caught since the introduction of new legislation called the ‘Clancy Amendment’, which is named after mother and daughter Geraldine and Louise Clancy from Cork who were killed in a crash caused by a learner driver.
The law requires learner drivers to be accompanied by a driver who has held a licence for at least two years.
The Clancy Amendment makes it an offence for the owner of a vehicle to knowingly allow an unaccompanied learner or an unlicensed person to drive his or her vehicle. It also gives gardaí the power to impound the vehicles of learner drivers caught breaking the rule.
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