If you drive your own car or a family member or friend's vehicle while you have a provisional licence, before you pass your test, you need to get insurance. You can either get added to the car owner's insurance, or get dedicated learner driver's insurance, which preserves the owner's No Claims Bonus.

While our provisional insurance quotes differ depending on a range of factors, including the type and age of the vehicle and age of the learner, our cheap insurance rates start from as little as 70p* per day, making them affordable for learners on a wide range of budgets.

If you want to supervise a learner driver, both of you must be insured if you are driving your car. If the learner owns their own car, then they must be covered, but you must be over 21, qualified to drive the car, and have a full licence for three years in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Liechtenstein or Iceland – you do not need to be insured on their car however.

In most cases, you can, though it depends on the specifics of your insurance policy. However, by not choosing owner learner driver insurance, you can risk your No Claims Bonus – such as if the learner bumps another car or otherwise damages your car. That's why learner insurance is often a better option than simply adding a driver.

Yes. As the registered owner or keeper of the vehicle, you must have the vehicle insured in your own name for the duration of the Collingwood Learner Driver insurance policy. A “driving other cars" extension does not qualify as adequate vehicle insurance.

Not necessarily, no. The learner driver must be accompanied by a person over the age of 21, who has held (and still holds) a valid full UK driving licence in the same category as the vehicle they are driving, for at least 3 years – it doesn't just have to be the vehicle owner.

If you don't have specialised UK learner insurance or haven't been added to the insurance of the owner of the car you are driving, you could get an unlimited fine, up to eight penalty points on your licence, and be banned from driving. It's illegal to drive without valid insurance in the UK.

Dual insurance is a situation where a car has the exact same cover across multiple insurance policies – such as if a car were to be insured for two people across two main policies instead of a main policyholder simply adding a named driver. Learner insurance differs from this in that it is a different type of cover. That means it still offers value for money.

Yes, you can. All Collingwood's learner driver insurance policies can be used by or cover 17-year-old drivers.

It can differ. Your specific insurance schedule will detail how much your excess is. For more information, chat to us via LiveChat below.

Yes, you do. Your car, or the car you are named on, should be fitted with front and rear L plates – or D plates if you are in Wales.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is used to detect whether a car is insured, taxed, and has a valid MOT, but it cannot detect who is driving the car and the level of insurance that driver has.

However, if a car is found to have been driven by someone with the incorrect insurance or no insurance at all, you could be fined a fixed £300 penalty and be given six penalty points, receive an unlimited fine, or even be disqualified from driving indefinitely.

Learner driver insurance and provisional licence insurance are the same thing. They each cover a learner driver while they practice driving with a friend or family member, in their own car, or the other person's car.

Each learner driver is required to hold their own insurance policy. However, more than one learner driver can drive the same car.

Yes. You will need to take your learner insurance policy documents with you and ensure the car meets certain requirements set by the government. We've provided a summary below, but we advise that you read the full list of requirements on the government website.

• The car must be taxed.
• The car must be in a roadworthy condition.
• If the car is over three years old, it must have a current MOT.
• There must not be any warning lights lit up, for example the airbag warning light.

While you will not earn a traditional No Claims Discount, following the termination of your learner driver insurance policy and having completed at least 10 consecutive month of claim-free driving, we will provide a letter on a single occasion confirming an entitlement to one year’s worth of No Claims Discount for presentation to a new insurer. It’s worth noting that these are not done automatically and must be requested. 

You can cover more than one vehicle, providing you purchase a separate policy for each vehicle. Log in to your existing online account and click ‘New Quote’ to begin the process.

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