Bereaved Manchester mum backs calls for restrictions on young drivers
A petition calling for graduated driving licences for under 21s is being delivered to Downing Street
Last updated 2nd Apr 2025
A mum from Manchester, who lost her 17-year-old son in a horror crash, is backing calls for tighter restrictions on new drivers.
It comes as a petition is being delivered to the Government today, asking for restrictions on new and young drivers to be reviewed.
Those include graduated driving licences, which would mean anyone who is under 21 when they pass their test, wouldn't be able take passengers for six months.
Anne-Marie Hornsby's son, Colin, was in the back seat when the car he was travelling in crashed near Denbigh, North Wales, killing him and two others in 2018.
Anne-Marie warns that young people will continue to die on the roads unless action is taken: "It never ever goes away, and you're always reminded of it when the more young people die on those roads.
"Some of those young people are dying unnecessarily because they're in with other young people.
"And if graduated driving licence was in and that for so long that they new drivers couldn't have other young people in the car with them, then we would have seen lives saved already..
"All I keep seeing in the news regularly since Colin died is young people killed in car crashes
"I feel as every time I pick a paper up, all the television comes on. It's more young people that have died."
Anne-Marie added that she hopes the petition will start important conversations: "Please, please, listen. Listen to the people that know.
"We are the ones who are trying to save other people, other families, other mums, other dads, other brothers and sisters from going through what we are going through."