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There are schemes out there for those caught speeding and those causing accidents - Speed Awareness Scheme and the National Driver Improvement Scheme.

Funnily enough, particularly the NDIS, they elicit quite positive comments from the delegates.

Nigel

http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26546 She was in just the position you, a qualified driving instructor, recommend. Is it any wonder? I asked a question about one specific circumstance. I was NOT recommending it for all situations. Driving or riding on the road needs a measure of fle...

The standard of driving instructor speaks for itself. Now one must wonder if these "skills" and poor attitude are being passed on to their pupils? Sorry, I have only just followed the link you gave. Probably a bit late now, but did you report this [rude word removed] to the AA? They would...

rbrian wrote:Stop next to the car? At a left turn? Seriously?

Do you know how many cyclists are killed by left-turning vehicles?

That's it, you've now lost any respect I may once have had for your profession.

That's rich coming from someone who intends to jump red lights!

Nigel

....Of course some of it is about how quickly and confidently she can make that assessment, compared to myself with 35 years more experience, meaning that in quite a few instances she is going to stop where I would not have done. How old is your daughter? If she is under 10 then she may struggle to...

I have a lesson in Oxford on Saturday so will try and make time to have a look. Personally I would cycle in the bus lane, provided we aren't specifically banned from doing so. If a bus driver wants to make something of it, not down the bus details and report him to the bus company - if you speak to ...

All in all a good post and, if the professional trainers and the amateur trainers really are singing from the same hymn sheet then great. The more children trained, the better. One problem I have experienced though. Wiltshire cc are signed up to Bikeability, Swindon borough council don't and have st...

I would have no problem with some sort of psychological testing and that could fit in well with driver education. The irrelevance I mentioned is that I wouldn't push for further driver education simply because I an a driver trainer. Twist it the other way round and yes, the relevance may be there ie...

If you were turning left why not stop next to the lead car in a position where you could still see the lights? I agree the lights or the ASL are badly positioned but that doesn't justify breaking the law! Write in to the local road safety unit. In my experience they listen and take some sort of acti...

I could have stayed far enough back if I stayed behind the ten cars queuing in that lane. As I passed them all, and the one at the front was on the line, the only place I could go was the ASL box - which is what it's for, after all. I'm starting to understand why people run red lights, and in futur...

........(OTOH, I'm sure that as a driving instructor you know that a pedestrian has no priority on a zebra crossing until they are off the footway and actually crossing the road. Also, a driver need only give a pedestrian precedence so at least as far as the zebra regs go, they can set off again ju...

johncharles wrote:ADNIGEL

Who is going to do all that training you would like to see done in schools then and where is the time required going to come from

How about the Bikeability trainers?

Nigel

....It may well be as you say "peer pressure" but you can demonstrate many instances where this is questionable. For example, people will always believe they can judge things better themselves - i.e. speed etc. That's a fact of human nature, we can't change it so we have to work with it. ...

Sorry, but I don't agree that MOST people are bad drivers. I would suggest that MOST drivers are pretty average. Yes there are some total muppets out there but there are some good ones too. Some will not want to have their driving criticised but there are more and more companies signing up to put th...

....Why do I need to consult trainers? Doh! Because to be able to state something isn't being taught you need to talk to the people that do the training. :roll: You can't simply make such a sweeping statement! Surely if people are trained 'properly' (whatever 'properly' is) then they'd retain the i...