Law on learner drivers getting repeated permits will change after test times fall, minister tells road victims’ families

Seán Canney

Conor Feehan

The current delay in driving tests and letting learner drivers continually roll-over their permit year after year without sitting a test is without a doubt affecting road safety, according to Susan Gray of the PARC road safety group.

Ms Gray, whose husband Steve was killed by an unaccompanied learner driver in Donegal in 2004, was one of five families who met with Junior Transport Minister Sean Canney at Leinster House yesterday to push for changes in the laws around driving to make roads safer.