Teens driving friends while having provisional license

[Anonymous]

Do you let your teens drive their friends before their license allows them to? We are in MD and teens are required to have their provisional for 5 months before driving friends. But it seems that many do it before then. Do you allow your kids to do this? What is the legal consequence if they are caught?

[Anonymous]

Who’s gonna tell her about the dead teens from Fairfax last month? (“Coming home from SAT prep”)

[Anonymous]

Hard no. There is a good reason for this rule.

[Anonymous]

Your kid will 100% get locked up if they get caught doing this.

[Anonymous]

No way

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not

[Anonymous]

No we did not. Who cares “what others are doing” he also couldn’t ride with friends.

[Anonymous]

No. I have too many memories of doing this when I was a teen to ever allow my kids to do the same.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not.
Have had 3 kids get their driver’s licenses so far. They follow the limitations of the provisional license or they don’t drive. It’s not negotiable for us.

Look up the statistics on the risks associated with newly-licensed drivers having teen passengers. It’s something like having 2 teen passengers doubles the risk of a fatal crash and 3+ passengers quadruples it. These rules exist for a reason.

[Anonymous]

My DD doesn’t have her license yet but almost all of her friends do because she is young for her grade. I’ve been surprised at how many drive friends around before they are allowed to. In most cases the parents are unaware though it’s mainly driving back and forth to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid will 100% get locked up if they get caught doing this.

Obviously, this isn’t true, but they do lose their license. I did not allow my kid to be the driver or the passenger breaking the rule. I would say you don’t want anyone to lose their license over this.

I’ve never heard of someone getting pulled over to check, kid probably has to make a driving violation to get busted, which of course is probably more likely with friends in the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid will 100% get locked up if they get caught doing this.

Obviously, this isn’t true, but they do lose their license. I did not allow my kid to be the driver or the passenger breaking the rule. I would say you don’t want anyone to lose their license over this.

I’ve never heard of someone getting pulled over to check, kid probably has to make a driving violation to get busted, which of course is probably more likely with friends in the car.

They lose their license?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid will 100% get locked up if they get caught doing this.

Obviously, this isn’t true, but they do lose their license. I did not allow my kid to be the driver or the passenger breaking the rule. I would say you don’t want anyone to lose their license over this.

I’ve never heard of someone getting pulled over to check, kid probably has to make a driving violation to get busted, which of course is probably more likely with friends in the car.

They lose their license?

“Violations may result in a suspension of one's driving privilege.”
https://mva.maryland.gov/safety/Pages/mhso/program-young-drivers.aspx

[Anonymous]

Many teens do this, and, we did not allow it for our two teens (nor did we allow them in a car with another newly driving teen).

[Anonymous]

I did not allow my DS to do this, although in reality, who knows if it really happened.