Speed awareness course

[EternalOptimist]

I paid my dues on Friday morning and attended the speed awareness course. It was a lot better than I had thought and I learned a lot of useful stuff, like how to identify the speed in leui of speed signs.

There was a fair bit of billocks as well, 25% of the time was how to be an eco friendly driver. Slow down to save on GW.
25% Of the time on corporate responsibility even though we only had 1 professional driver there

hey ho

[cojak]

What were the biscuits like?

[Churchill]

I paid my dues on Friday morning and attended the speed awareness course. It was a lot better than I had thought and I learned a lot of useful stuff, like how to identify the speed in leui of speed signs.

There was a fair bit of billocks as well, 25% of the time was how to be an eco friendly driver. Slow down to save on GW.
25% Of the time on corporate responsibility even though we only had 1 professional driver there

hey ho

What was your pledge?

Mine was "I endeavour not to get caught speeding again!"

[Mich the Tester]

Any amusing anecdotes from you or your fellow students? Best excuse for speeding?

[mudskipper]

I did mine a couple of weeks back. Also much better than I'd feared, and learned some useful stuff.

Like the example where bloke stopped on country lane waiting to turn right, got hit up the arse and ended up being hit by oncoming car, because he'd turned his steering wheel rightwards so that's the direction he went in when hit. Did they show you the M4 simulation? Truly shocking stuff.

Must admit, I was surprised how few deaths there are on the roads - of course any number is too many - but my guesstimate was out by a factor of 5.

[EternalOptimist]

Any amusing anecdotes from you or your fellow students? Best excuse for speeding?

oh thanks Mitch. I wished the floor could open up and swallow me.
we had a group discussion about excuses, and of course I made a joke of it.
Then the guy running the course comes to our table and says - who is your spokesman

of course they all point at me

'Er like, me wife ran away with a policemans occifer, an when I saw yer blue flashin lights, I thought youse were bringing her back. like.'

[Paddy]

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Like the example where bloke stopped on country lane waiting to turn right, got hit up the arse and ended up being hit by oncoming car, because he'd turned his steering wheel rightwards so that's the direction he went in when hit. .

Basic stuff as per the IAM manual.

[VectraMan]

like how to identify the speed in leui of speed signs.

How do you identify the speed (limit) in leiu of signs? If the signs aren't there, surely the limit doesn't apply (or at least they can't prosecute you for breaking it)?

[Sysman]

Defaults to 30mph with lamp posts unless otherwise indicated.

From decades ago I remember a chap getting off a charge of speeding in a 30mph limit because the lamp posts were more than 200 feet apart.

[Paddy]

From decades ago I remember a chap getting off a charge of speeding in a 30mph limit because the lamp posts were more than 200 feet apart.

That was correct however; I believe the law has changed. I recently went through a new 30mph area in the countryside that had no lampposts and no repeater signs. Also any limit below 30mph must by law have extra markings such and marking on the tarmac to designate the restricted speed area however, local councils seem to often ignore this. There are several stretches of roads now that go from limits of 30 to 40 to 30 to 50 to 60 to 30 within a mile or so. It’s now very difficult to distinguish what is the limit is