Open driving insurance is an optional extra available on AXA car insurance policies that allows anyone between the age of 25 and 70 with a full Irish, UK or EU driver’s license to drive your car. With AXA, we offer open driving insurance in the form of an optional extra to add to your car insurance policy, at an additional cost. This means that you have the choice of choosing between Comprehensive, Third Party, Fire & Theft or Third Party Only insurance for your car insurance policy and adding open driving insurance as an extra add on if you so wish.
What are the benefits of open driving insurance?
The benefit of this is that if you need to allow someone else to drive your car for a few days as a once-off, you won’t need to add them as a named driver to your policy. This allows you to have peace of mind that your car is protected if someone else needs to drive it.
Having open driving insurance on your car ensures that when another person is driving your car, they are covered to do so.
Can anyone drive my car if I have open driving insurance?
Much like with all insurance cover, with AXA we do have certain criteria around open driving insurance. The most important thing you have to ensure when allowing someone to drive your car when you have this extra cover is that they are between the ages of 25 and70 and have a full Irish, UK or EU licence and have your permission to drive the car. When adding open driving insurance to your policy it is important that you read all documents associated with your policy to ensure you fully understand who can drive your car with this additional insurance cover.
