FOI finds 10,000 new drivers had licences revoked

About 200 new drivers had their licences revoked each week in 2012, figures obtained by Newsbeat show.

A Freedom of Information request to the DVLA found 10,797 drivers with fewer than two years' experience lost their licences.

More than half of those were found without insurance, with speeding the second most common cause.

Newsbeat's Declan Harvey has been speaking to Chris Moore, who had his licence revoked after, he says, he mistakenly drove without insurance.

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