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25/03/2009
Too many young moped riders are being killed or injured on the road and the Government should do more to protect them, a motoring group has warned.
In a report published last December, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) found that between 2000 and 2006, an average of six 16-year-olds were killed on the UK's roads each year. A further 269 were seriously injured annually.
The IAM points out that more 16-year-old boys are killed or seriously injured on mopeds than in cars, or while walking or cycling.
Now the motoring group is asking for changes to the way that training and licensing for moped riders is handled, as the Government mulls over responses to the recent Learning to Drive consultation on the training and licensing of drivers.
Director of policy and research at the IAM, Neil Greig, said the problem was a "forgotten issue".
"Sixteen-year-old boys are being allowed to ride mopeds with too little practical understanding of safe roadcraft or defensive riding skills, leaving them particularly vulnerable."
Department for Transport figures for 2007 show that 29% of all deaths among those aged 15-19 were caused on the road.
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