
Licence to Kill
Sophie Morgan was paralysed at eighteen when the car she was driving crashed, and she now presents a film asking why newly qualified drivers are the single biggest cause of death among young people on British roads. Her central case is Courtney Meppen-Walter, a Manchester City player jailed after a collision that killed two members of the same family, and the film gets access to both him and the bereaved family to walk through what happened and what followed in court. Morgan also meets drivers who race illegally on public roads, and people left disabled or bereaved by crashes they caused or survived, gathering their accounts of guilt, injury, and recovery on camera. The film's most pointed scene is Morgan's own reunion with the passengers who were in her car the night she crashed, forcing her to reckon with her own driving rather than stay in the role of interviewer. Throughout, she pushes toward a specific, practical question: what measure would actually cut the accident rate among young drivers.