COMPETITION: Win Young Driver lesson and museum admission

HERALD readers are being offered the chance to win one of eight 30-minute Young Driver lessons, each worth £34.95, which can be redeemed at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon — with one main winner also bagging a family ticket for the museum itself.

Young Driver is a groundbreaking driver training scheme, offering driving tuition to 10-17-year-olds – so up to seven years before they can legally take to the road.

It is the UK’s largest provider of pre-17 driving lessons and has delivered more than 350,000 lessons at 45 venues across Britain.

It’s about having fun, but it’s also helping youngsters become safer drivers, by educating them for longer. Four hundred people lose their lives in accidents involving young drivers each year in the UK.

Shockingly, the figures show one in five newly qualified drivers will crash within six months of passing their test. But for those who have taken Young Driver lessons, the rate of accidents drops by more than a half, to fewer than one in ten.

Thirty or 60 minute lessons take place behind the wheel of a dual-controlled SKODA Citigo car, with a highly qualified driving instructor.

A whole road system is created to help the drivers learn everything from changing gears and parking to using roundabouts and manoeuvring a slalom. Vouchers for Young Driver lessons make a great idea for a present for difficult-to-buy-for-teens, and Young Driver can also run birthday parties.

The winners will each receive a 30-minute lesson at Young Driver’s British Motor Museum-based venue. Driving tuition is available for youngsters with disabilities.

To enter the competition, see page 10 of the dated Thursday, 14th July.