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What will Northern Ireland's graduated driver licensing mean for young motorists?

Big changes have been introduced for first-time drivers in Northern Ireland. It’s the first part of the UK to introduce graduated driver licensing - but will it make Northern Ireland's roads safer?

Big changes have been introduced for first-time drivers in Northern Ireland. It’s the first part of the UK to introduce graduated driver licensing.

It has been described as the biggest set of reforms in licensing in Northern Ireland in 70 years.

The measures are designed to reduce the number of young people killed or seriously injured on Northern Ireland's roads, where new drivers are disproportionately involved in serious crashes.

BBC Journalist Jake Wood travels across Northern Ireland to find out if graduated driver licensing is the answer to making roads safer.

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