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invited to a speed awareness course
#1282104
21/10/2011 12:05
21/10/2011 12:05
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Posts: 3,300 Paddock Wood, Kent
adder58
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Just had this though. Wondered if anyone here has had the honour. What should I expect? I have googled this, found one reviewer who stated he had been escorted out the build after 2 hours for 'debating' too much!! Has anyone done the driving element, if yes, what does this involve? BTW I was flashed do 38 on a 2 lane stretch of road. no excuse, thought I was just 'tootling' down the road.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
#1282110
21/10/2011 12:24
21/10/2011 12:24
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Nobby
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Couple of people I know have done it and said it was rather interesting. Theirs were run by the AA (not the police), so they saw it as an educational rather than a rollocking.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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21/10/2011 13:20
21/10/2011 13:20
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Biggenz
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Stan, do you have to be invited for this or can you ask to go on it rather than get 3 points?
I know they only offer it when you have a clean licence and it's your first offence, altough it's not guaranteed?
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
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21/10/2011 13:33
21/10/2011 13:33
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Stan, do you have to be invited for this or can you ask to go on it rather than get 3 points?
I know they only offer it when you have a clean licence and it's your first offence, altough it's not guaranteed? It can't be requested. It may be that your area don't run the course or haven't signed up to scheme or that the speed clocked was outside the limits required for the course; i.e. they only deal with the "marginal" cases. As you've also alluded to, if you've done the course in the past three years then you also don't get offered it either, so be careful out there. I've sat in on a couple and was "sort of" impressed. There was just one where I had an issue with the attitude of the guy running the course but that was more to do with him than anything else.... On balance I'd recommend them as a good way to keep a clean licence and maybe learn something at the same time. Oh, and like blood donors, they give you tea and biccies!
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: stan]
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21/10/2011 14:20
21/10/2011 14:20
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adder58
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Wot! they are going to take my blood??!! when the notice came through it states if I admit to it quick enough I MAY be invited to attend the course. The invite came through today and I have 21 days to accept. I will reply today. I'm on the kent one, but this doesn't have the driving element. just a classroom. I fancied ago at the driving part, I wonder if other surrounding counties do it. the deal is if you are caught doing anything upto 42mph in a 30, then you maybe asked to come along.
was Elec blue + owner now use of a mini cooper S 25y independent Mortgage-Financial adviser
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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21/10/2011 14:55
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Neal
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I did one of these last year (67 in a 60, mid-overtake) - just a classroom course, run by the AA, and it was pretty interesting - definitely worth it rather than taking points.
Just don't act like an idiot during the course and you'll be fine - the guy who got escorted off must have been a real fool.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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21/10/2011 15:15
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i did one of these. they are BORING as hell. i started to think that he points are a better choice but enjoy! the fact about the first traffic light was an interesting fact. but ive forgotten now
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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21/10/2011 15:49
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Enforcer
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Just had this though. Wondered if anyone here has had the honour. What should I expect? I have googled this, found one reviewer who stated he had been escorted out the build after 2 hours for 'debating' too much!! I'm not surprised he was thrown out. I heard of someone getting similar short shrift at midnight mass. "Mass debater ejected from church" I think the headline was... Just make sure you don't get a speeding ticket on the way to this course.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: Brewster]
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21/10/2011 17:30
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I have one booked in November. I think there's a 50:50 chance of me ending up having to pay the £60 and getting three points anyway as I won't be lectured at by some BRAKE spastic about how overtaking is worse than paedophilia.
They aren't like that at all. Although overtaking is an awful, disgusting and depraved thing.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
#1282215
21/10/2011 17:33
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SimonCoupe
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The good thing about paedophiles is at least they drive slowly past schools....
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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21/10/2011 17:40
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Neal
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
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21/10/2011 21:19
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Biggenz
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The good thing about paedophiles is at least they drive slowly past schools.... Haha!
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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22/10/2011 10:11
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That was genuinely funny.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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07/01/2012 22:56
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I did the awareness course a couple of months ago - driver awareness rather than speed awareness - run by Dorset police. I think the most important lesson I learnt was that if I use a SatNav, which I don't, it is illegal to place it within the swipe of the wipers.
Its a better option than the points, but I couldn't help thinking it would be more beneficial for insurance companies to use for their more regular claimants.
Last edited by FreakinFreak; 07/01/2012 22:59.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
#1304087
08/01/2012 11:08
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adder58
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The course was ok, I don't speed in 30 or 40 mph zones anyway (I thought I was in a 40 zone but it was a 30) So I didn't really learn anything that would change the way I drive, Never knew (or probably forgot) that a pattern of street lights means it's a 30 mph zone (unless other speed signs are in place) even on a dual carriage way, and also a dual carriage way can still be a single lane road. What I found most interesting was the physics behind a braking car, and why 5 mph extra makes such a difference at impact point this was the video they showed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM4p0-cKgGY (this was just 3mph difference) My daughter starts driving next month, so I will chat to her about what was discussed. and if you kill someone whilst on your phone. you could get 14 years in prison !!!
was Elec blue + owner now use of a mini cooper S 25y independent Mortgage-Financial adviser
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
#1304088
08/01/2012 11:16
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tim42
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That video is really interesting; scary too! Well worth watching, Tim
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
#1304096
08/01/2012 12:49
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and if you kill someone whilst on your phone. you could get 14 years in prison !!! [/quote]
Really !!! I would have thought it would be much more than 12 years. Manslaughter ?
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
#1304097
08/01/2012 13:27
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AlanC
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I did one when they first came out. They used to be £50. If the date is no good for you you can change it once. The one I did had one part that made the room go quiet. It was when a bloke came on where his daughter had been killed by a speeding motorist. The one part I learned was when you see speed camera signs keep to the speed limit. You have a chance of getting offered one every 3 years. My wife got 3 points in my Coupe. She spent all day telling me to slow down. Got home to find the dreaded envelope. Looked at my works rota. I was at work. So I grassed her up She got offered a speed awareness course when she got caught a couple of years later. The time ahe got 3 points she forgot she was in my car. She put her into 2nd coming off an island and put her foot down. They were waiting round the corner for her.
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
#1304130
08/01/2012 17:27
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Toad
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Can I join in please,
As a long life speeder, I would welcome a way of convincing me to slow down, but I feel its like smoking must be, its all very well presenting the facts, its still very difficult to adhere to the reasoning.
Video's, every single video I have seen always shows trick editing to make the point. I feel if people want drivers like me to take it seriously, they must show the facts. (1st car has ABS 2nd car doesn't)
We all get told if your doing the speed limit say 30mph a child (Its always a child) is likely to live, my question is, is this assuming we will slow down in time from 30mph? or is it the impact speed is 30mph? My concern is there are so many drivers out there saying I drive at the speed limit so I'm a good driver, when in fact, if they looked out the windscreen all that time of looking down at there instruments, they would be far safer and a much better road user, even if they were going a little faster. And lets face it, we all know not to stay on the brakes all the way to impact, DON'T??? WE??? maybe not, so slow down untill you learn this.
Next; If you want people to drive differently teach them differently and not just to pass a test, its a privilege not a right, what do I see every day;
Lets educate these drivers first
I've put my rear fog lights on so you don't hit me up the back, and then there on for three months until the MOT or service turns them off.
Well I've put my lights on, I can see, who needs those bright ones on, the side light drivers we cant see with the other lights on around them.
I'm doing the speed limit so I'm a good driver I'm doing the speed limit so I'm you can't come past me You should be doing the speed limit so I'm going to pull out any way. I'm ever so careful with my driving, but I've never checked my tyre pressure once. My cars better than yours I'm not letting you past The lovely drivers that stand on there brakes in the outside lane, then pull in.
Types of driver; 1. Those that just get caught out in odd ways, not consistent speeders.
2. Consistent speeders, but still with thought and concern about there driving standards, adds to there driving skills when ever possible, (did you slid off, yes so why did it happen, and not just HeHe that was fun.)
3. Constant speeders with no concern or thought's about there driving ability's or any one else on the road, you know the type, I'm going to beat you no mater what, I'm going to stay in the outside lane all the way, idiots.
PLEASE I don't wish to condone speeding, but lets face it, if you do 31 your an bad driver, next day the government change's its mind and your not, its as simple as that.
DRIVE WITH COMMON SENSE, DRIVE WITHIN YOUR LIMITS, HOW HARD CAN IT BE
Roger.....
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: samsite999]
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08/01/2012 23:38
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It's also worth noting that the limit is just that, a limit and not a target you have to hit. There are plenty of occasions where a 30mph limit may be enforced but you would be considered dangerous optimistic trying to do that In all seriousness, why do speed limits seem to be the only law consistently up for debate?
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Re: invited to a speed awareness course
[Re: adder58]
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09/01/2012 13:58
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Toad
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Probably because so many cases of bad driving and accedents are blambed on speed, rather than the pore judgment of the driver, or pore judgment of the fellow that gave that driver a license in the first place.
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