The Automobile Association is offering a free driving lesson to some Whangarei learner drivers.
The offer is open to new motorists who have held their learner licences for less than two months and are either AA members or the children of AA members.
With an hour-long lesson costing $55 in Whangarei, eligible learner drivers could see joining the AA as a good option as annual membership for people under 18 costs $39.50 and, along with the free driving lesson, they would get free eye tests, breakdown calls, a Smartfuel card and other advantages.
The free AA driving lessons were first offered in Hamilton and Tauranga in July and in Rotorua and Taupo last month, with about 120 new motorists in those centres learning to improve their driving skills.
The free lessons are now being offered in Whangarei and Nelson and AA Driving School head Nigel Clark said the plan was to roll the programme out across the rest of New Zealand over the next few months.