Parents 'acting as taxi drivers'
Personal insurance
21st April 2010
British parents are driving an average of 2,000 miles to ferry their offspring around, it has been found.
A poll carried out by Populous discovered the average family spends £340 annually on fuel simply to fund trips to and from school and to extra-curricular activities.
Commissioned by the AA, the research also shows 11 per cent of the 2,128 parents of school-age children polled clock up 4,000 miles a year, costing around £687 in petrol.
As fuel prices continue to increase, the cost of running kids around will grow and Mark Huggins of the AA has warned: "Many families can make economies in their weekly outgoings but they are stuck with essential driving such as the school run."
He called for more to be done by the fuel industry and the government to reduce prices.
Parents seeking a UK insurance policy for their vehicle are advised that the cost of petrol in the UK rose during April to a record high, beating a previous limit of 119.7p set in July 2008 in the wake of a 1p increase in fuel duty at the start of the month.
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