Overview
- A Prevention of Future Deaths report from East Yorkshire’s coroner warns that drivers from some countries can keep driving alone even after failing UK tests.
- The Department for Transport and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency must answer the report by May 26 with any proposed rule changes.
- Under current guidance, new residents from non‑designated countries can drive on their foreign licence for 12 months, and repeated UK test failures do not remove that unsupervised right.
- The case that prompted the report involved Timothy Kusemi, who killed 70‑year‑old Susan Whittles in a crash near Rudston in November 2023 and later admitted causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving on February 23.
- Kusemi was jailed for six years and banned for 11 years, and records show he finally passed the UK test on March 21, 2025 after six attempts, underscoring calls to let examiners suspend unsupervised driving where safety standards are not met.