To feel so nervous ...can anyone calm me down

[lindseyyork]

Morning,I don't know if I'm being silly or not.
I'm going away for the weekend today with a friend.
She's driving and it's about a 4 hour journey.
She only past her test 2 months ago and this is her second time on the motorways.
I know I'm being silly but I just keep thinking of crashes etc
Aibu to ask her to stop every hour ?
Just to have a break and a cuppa.

YANBU.
Pretend you have a headache starting and say please no music.
I'd also just ask outright if she could please stop every hour. Say you'll buy the coffee. Or feign a weak bladder.

@IceRebel it wasn't really a crash,someone behind wasn't keeping far enough distance.
Not injuries or anything just give me a shock

If she doesn’t concentrate then ask if you can turn the music down or offer to share the driving.

Cars are always bumping into each other in car parks and to be fair if you were driving slow looking for a place then the person behind should anticipate this and not get too close. Also first time on a motorway some hard shoulders are used as lanes or look similar, it can happen.

However not everyone is a good driver but knowing her history maybe you should have made plans before today?

The more breaks you have the more times you have to re-enter the traffic flow which can be the trickiest bit.

Check your own insurance, I can drive other vehicles thanks to my insurance for my own car. Or you could pay to get added to hers for the duration of the break.

You’ve agreed to it though so why not take your car instead and you drive?

Ignore the PP who says if you're both fully comp you'll be insured to drive her car. That's not necessarily the case.
Plus, if you do have DOC, you'd only be covered for third party damage. Best to get added to her insurance.

Driving on the hard shoulder is pretty bad. I'd be a bit worried too!

I would just pay yo go on her insurance for the weekend it won't cost much.

I wouldn’t ask her to stop every hour, that would would make the journey nearly six hours so she may be tired then too. Also it’s coming off and on of motorways that is the most nerve wracking when you first drive so stopping constantly would add to that.

Good luck I’m sure it will all be fine, keep turning down the radio, say you have a headache or something 👍

Don't travel with her if she is not a competent driver. Stopping and starting will just increase the likelihood of an accident due to leaving and rejoining the motorway.

It sounds like being passed as safe as gone to her head and she's taking it rather casually. Her ridiculously bad driving could end in a death. Maybe tell her that.