At Your Local Driving Instructor we strongly recommend the use of the green P-Plates. They show people you’re new on the road and most other drivers will give you a bit more time and consideration. We are in favour of the compulsory displaying of p plates, it makes a lot of sense and should made be a part of the New drivers act

So why should you display ‘P’ plates after passing the test?

Drivers in their first 2 years of driving after passing the test are at high risk! Over a thousand new drivers lives are lost each year on UK roads. New drivers only make up 7% of the drivers in the UK but have 12% of accidents that cause injury. After the first two years of a driver passing their test, research shows that the probability of having an accident that causes injury is nearly halved.

At the moment displaying 'p' plates is not compulsory, but the powers that be sitting in Westminster, are under pressure from those people in Brussels to implement a compulsory scheme where all new drivers must display p-plates for the first six month of passing their test.