Learner drivers in the UK should face a graduated system of licences to help reduce road deaths, says a report by the RAC Foundation.
The study suggests that hundreds of lives a year could be saved if such a system were adopted.
New drivers would face a four-year learning period during which they would be subject to restrictions.
The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand already have graduated learning for drivers.
The RAC Foundation said such countries had seen a significant reduction in the number of young people being killed in accidents.
Deaths among 17- to 24-year-olds have fallen by up to 60%, and the number of overall casualties has fallen by up to 32%.
“Putting a firm number on casualty reduction is hard because of the pick-and-mix approach to graduated licensing,” said Prof Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation.
“But the evidence suggests that a full package of measures could reduce fatalities by anything up to 60%,” he said.
In the UK, one in five novice drivers has an accident within six months of passing their test.
In 2011, more than 1,500 young drivers were killed or seriously injured, a rate of four a day, said the Foundation.
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