You could help to lower your son or daughter’s car insurance costs by being a named driver of their vehicle - but ensure you resist the temptation to decrease the cost of their policy further by claiming you are the main driver of the car if you are not.
‘Fronting’ - the practice of telling an insurance company that you are the principal driver of a vehicle, when in fact it is used by someone else for the majority of the time - is a form of insurance fraud, and could have serious consequences. If you are caught fronting when you try to make an insurance claim, your insurer will refuse to pay out and you could face prosecution. It’s also likely that you would be refused insurance cover in the future.
Because young people are statistically more likely to have accidents than older drivers, their insurance costs tend to be higher across the board
As a general rule of thumb, if a young person uses a car to drive to or from work, school or college on a daily basis, for insurance purposes they should be named as the main driver of the vehicle.
Consider a young drivers insurance scheme
Young drivers insurance schemes - sometimes referred to as pay as you go, ‘black box’ or telematics insurance policies - are products specifically designed to help cut the cost of cover for under-21s.
All insurance policies are priced in line with risk. This means the company you buy cover from will assess how likely they think you are to make a claim, and will then charge you an appropriate price for your cover. Because young people are statistically more likely to have accidents than older drivers, their insurance costs tend to be higher across the board.
Young drivers insurance schemes use recording devices to gather extra information about when, and how well, individual customers are driving their cars - with a view to assessing their likelihood of claiming more accurately and offering them more personalised car insurance premiums.
Telematics insurance schemes for young people often result in good savings, provided driving habits and style suggest you are less likely to make a claim. However, if an individual isn’t as safe a driver as they believe, they’re unlikely to see their insurance premium decrease and could even drive it up.
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