Absolutely spot on, that's the way it works you buy the licence plus the required medical checks. Ideed at one point I thought things had improved and the medical checks would be unavoidable, but then it all collapsed again into cash. The problem is that there is always a cash alternative, for those 'unfortunate' situations, when you don't have time to learn.... Then if you are at least a little guilty and wise its driving early in the morning, if not then it is hell for those around you, from day one, and that might be literally. Of course this plays a major factor, if people are learning live, don't be surprised if they are having head ons and other smashes. I could recount numerous cases of people I have known, because they went through this process, then lost control with speed or lost control because an animal got in the road..... now they are dead. There are other factors like the roads, but this licence one could really be addressed by an ispection team to close down the operation, together with penalties that are seen to be applied. That is where we are heading on this one, I am sure, and its long overdue. Once it stops being easy to obtain things fradulently, and the risks are made high, then the effort to do it properly becomes 'worth it' resulting in things improving. But without policing this, it will go nowhere. People will not give up an easy position, that is human nature.

The biggest killer on the roads is ignorance,give an idiot a licence,he will soon kill himself,but in most cases the others users on the road.But as usual,politicans have to be elected,you can't call potential voters morons.

Russia has three times more population than Spain (142/46) but 10 times more people dead in car accidents (30,000/3,000) A couple of decades ago the number of dead in car accidents/population was similar in Spain as it is now in Russia. Just reducing the number of people dead by 50% would save 150,000 (mostly young) lives in the Russian Federation during the next decade. And, more important, another 150,000 (mostly young) disabled people and over half a million injured. The result will be a better life for hundreds of thousands of Russians, and also savings to the Russian Social Security amounting to $100 bn., savings to private insurance companies amounting to $billions, 300,000 less immigrants needed, and thousands of young people for the Russian Army, Navy and Air Force....

Touchdown! That's a really cool way of ptuting it!