Driving home for Christmas: Young Driver experience that age 9-17s will love – with discount code
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If you’re struggling to find a Christmas gift for the teenager or tween in your family then a driving experience in Sunderland is something they’d love! Get your discount code here.
Counting down the days until you can start driving lessons on your 17th birthday can be a frustrating wait. But, Young Driver may make that a thing of the past by starting safe learning from as young as nine-years-old.
Not only is it great fun and the perfect Christmas gift for hard-to-please teenagers and tweens but early lessons can also be the key to making them safer drivers when they pass their test and get behind the wheel.
Youngsters aged from nine to 17 years can get in a dual-controlled car and get the basics of changing gear, clutch control and steering under their belt before they are even old enough to hold a provisional licence.
And you know they are in safe hands, as Young Driver has the experience of delivering more than 1.6m lessons to date.
It’s great fun for youngsters to be able to do something they’re not usually allowed to do, while learning valuable skills at the same time. It’s a great memory-making gift for Christmas and equips them with real-life skills for the future.
Making safer drivers
Young Driver Managing Director Ian Mulingani explained: “By starting younger, and learning consistently, learners build vital neural pathways which means elements such as gear changes, clutch control and steering become more ‘automatic’, so they can focus on the more complex areas of driving such as hazard awareness. Practice really does make perfect. And younger learners are like sponges, soaking up information, and much more likely to take on board safety messages than older teens.”
Driving is often a vital skill for employment and further education and 86% of Young Driver’s past pupils think early lessons helped them pass their test quicker and they became a safer driver because of them.
Where can I take lessons?
Young Driver offers lessons at 70 venues across the UK, including Sunderland’s Stadium of Light.
Its qualified instructors teach youngsters over 1.4m tall in Suzuki Swifts and similar cars on private land, creating road systems with junctions, roundabouts and places to practice manoeuvres.
The scheme conducted research with 450 of its past pupils which showed that drivers who have undertaken pre-17 driving lessons are 84% less likely to have an accident in the critical first six months after passing their driving test than the national average.
Young Driver can also help with lessons for youngsters with additional needs, and has also taught adults who are blind, or have autism and thought they may never be able to drive a car. They even helped a 98-year-old who wanted to give driving a go!
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Discount code
It’s the ideal Christmas gift and you can buy a single lesson or block course.
They are offering 15% off all driving experiences and lessons. Just use the code SUNDECHO15 when you book before Christmas Day!*
To book now click here.
To find out more, visit the website.
*T&Cs: Offer cannot be used in conjunction with other offers or discounts. Discount valid on full priced lessons and experiences. Offer not valid on vouchers.