Call to help boy racers

Nov 16 2009 Maurice Glover

Call to help boy racers

BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson has been asked to consider offering Government backing to boy racers.

Additional cash incentives should be made available to encourage drivers aged between 17 and 25 to scrap old cars and replace them with new vehicles, claims insurance firm Young Marmalade.

'This group are the most likely to be driving unsafely in old clangers - we urge Lord Mandelson to get behind young people and give them a much needed boost,' says managing director Crispin Moger.

According to statistics from the Institute of Advanced Motoring Trust, more than one third of road accident deaths and injury victims are in the17 to 25 age group.