ROAD safety campaigner Anne Ravenhill is determined to fight on despite a House of Commons transport sub-committee inquiry failing to take on board her calls for compulsory motorway tuition for new drivers.

Mrs Ravenhill of Burnley said: "I have been waiting for this report into the training of young and newly qualified drivers since the beginning of the year.

"The report was released on Monday and if I say I was disgusted with it that would be an understatement."

Support for her Learn to Live campaign has been growing and last year more than 100 MPs signed an early day motion on the issue.

She met the Transport Minister and felt the introduction of compulsory motorway tuition was a possibility. Those hopes were shattered this week.

The inquiry did not believe learner drivers should be compelled to undergo motorway training nor that motorway driving should become part of the driving test. The report added: "We are also not persuaded that allowing learner drivers to drive on motorways would significantly improve the safety standards of young drivers and we are concerned that it may prove dangerous to other road users."

They also found that a requirement for all newly qualified drivers to complete a 'pass plus course' as too Draconian and unworkable but recommended that post-test training schemes should be more vigorously promoted.

Mrs Ravenhill said: "They have completely ignored everything that has been said by myself and those who have helped me with the campaign.

"I never said that motorway driving should be part of the driving test but that there should be post-test tuition.

"After eight years of campaigning I am absolutely furious about it. They have done absolutely nothing. But I am determined to carry on the fight."

The campaign is now on the Internet with more than 1,000 people so far calling at the website www.blenheim.demon.co.uk.

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