‘Every driving test should include a bike question’

An insurance firm is petitioning the Government to make a motorcycle-related question part of every driving test.

Bennetts Insurance thinks it could help reduce casualties.

At the moment a bike-related question may or may not come up in the driving theory test. The petition says the matter should not be left to chance.

It says: ‘With questions currently selected at random, there is no guarantee that a question relating to the awareness of motorcyclists will arise in the current test format and this petition is set to challenge that.’

Hannah Squirrell, Bennetts’ Director of Marketing, said: “The petition has been approved by the government and we need to get at least 100,000 signatures in order to have this raised in the House of Commons.”

Find the petition here epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26272