Fatal crash prompts calls for insurers to scrap nighttime driving curfews
Telematics providers are urging insurers to remove nighttime driving restrictions from their products, after a coroner cited a curfew as a factor in a fatal crash involving two teenagers.
Eighteen-year-old Oliver Pain’s car was fitted with an Ikube telematics box with an 11pm curfew. The car, which was travelling to North Nibley in Gloucestershire from Chipping Sodbury near Bristol
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