The exemption should really only be granted in exceptional cases, says an expert

Two young died on Tuesdaywhen the car derailed into the quarry in Laitila. According to police, the car was transported by a 17-year-old young man who drove with an exemption.

This is another fatal accident this year, where the driver has been an exemption.

In April, two girls born in 2008 died in Crash of passenger cars in Nurmijärvi. Even then, the car was driven by the young person who was exceptional. Young traffic accidents also talked in January when four 17-19 year olds spoke died in After the car derailed in the river in Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi.

Young people are over -represented in traffic accident statistics, although the number of traffic deaths has decreased in all age groups.

Traffic security training manager Satu Tuomikoski According to the driving license exemption, the terms and conditions should be tightened.

« An exemption is no longer an exemption if most of the applicants are obtained, » Tuomikoski says.

The Driving License Act was reformed in 2018. An exemption can be obtained if driving to school or hobbies, for example, requires driving by car. According to Tuomikoski, more than 90 % of applicants are allowed.

« There will be more than 15,000 applications each year. The number has certainly surprised the authorities who process applications. »

According to Tuomikoski, this should not go.

« The exemption should really mean the circumstances in which a young person’s movement from one place to another cannot be guaranteed by any other way. »

On traffic safety There are several suggestions for increasing safety for young drivers.

According to them, the exemption should be restricted so that the right to drive is only within the distance to which the permit has been granted. Night -time driving should be tightened with exemptions.

“In addition, we hope that risk recognition training will be relocated to the post -driver’s time of driving license,” says Tuomikoski.

« This would allow the driver who received the card a better chance of focusing on risk identification once the degree has already been completed. »

According to Tuomikoski, this can also understand that getting a driving license does not mean that you are a finished driver. One solution may also be to include traffic education in a secondary curriculum.

Traffic Safety also proposes the auxiliary carrier model. In the model, driving a 17-year-old driver would only be allowed if there were a person with a driver’s license in the first few months after receiving the card.

“This would aim to increase road safety. The highest risk of accidents is four months after receiving the card,” Tuomikoski sums up.

Transport- and Minister of Communications Lulu Ranne told HS in an interview on Wednesday that in the Driving License Act Running rapid changes.

The examination of the night -time drivers and tightening the conditions of exemptions will be examined, but the means to resolve them are still open.

The preliminary proposal for changes will be published on Thursday.

Relief 12.6. 8.30am: In the case of Laitila, the car passengers died on Tuesday, not the driver, as read earlier in the article.