Posted by Will Dracott on Wednesday, May 5, 2010,
Drivers on British roads whose vehicles are registered abroad are
evading fines totalling nearly £15m a year because authorities here are
failing to enforce them. Figures disclosed under the Freedom of
Information Act also reveal that many police forces routinely discard
speeding tickets and local councils simply do not bother to issue
parking tickets to vehicles with foreign numberplates because tracing
the owner is too time-consuming.
Information obtained by The Sunday Times shows th...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Saturday, May 1, 2010,
It's a parking manoeuvre 67-year old Ralph Hudson will
never forget, when he mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the
brake pedal and nearly plunged seven stories to the ground through a car
park's brick wall.
Luckily for Mr Hudson his Mercedes C-Class was
left dangling half out of the wall and he was able to get out of the
car. The cars below were not so fortunate and seven were badly damaged
by the falling bricks.
Mr Hudson was parking in the Bank of
America car park in Tuls...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Friday, April 30, 2010,
THE government has signalled that it plans to cut the drink driving
limit to
less than a pint of beer or a glass of wine.
Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, expects an official review of the
law to
recommend reducing the legal limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of
blood
to 50mg.
He said he would take this “very seriously” and added: “A strong case
has been
made to have a lower limit.”
A new law on drug driving is also likely amid concern about the number
of
motor...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Thursday, April 29, 2010,
The new independent drive will be introduced to the UK driving test in a few months time, which will take a good 10 minutes of the exam, something that a lot of learners arent looking forward to. However, on the bright side a manoeuvre will be dropped!
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Posted by Will Dracott on Friday, April 23, 2010,
I've been doing some reseach into learning techniques and something interesting has cropped up. The Mozart Effect. It used to be said that by listening to Mozart it could make you smarter. This isn't strictly true. By listening to music that you find stimulating (puts a smile on your face) your body produces a certain chemical that then allows brain cells to produce synaptic pathways 20% quicker. Synaptic pathways is basically how your brain makes memories. The more memories you have of...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Monday, April 19, 2010,
When we announced the results of the Consultation: Improved
Services for Customers and General Fee Increases for 2008 on 19 February
2008 we explained that we intended to provide clarification within the
regulations as to who may act as an accompanying driver for learners
driving category C1 (medium size lorry) and D1 (minibus) vehicles.
Those new arrangements will come into effect on 1 May 2010.
From that date, it will be illegal for anyone to act as an accompanying
driver in a ca...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Tuesday, March 23, 2010,
Chief
driving examiner welcomes the publication of scientific study
Chief driving examiner and
director for safer driving Trevor Wedge has welcomed the publication of a
new scientific study into how driving instructors can develop their
coaching skills.
The EU-funded ‘High Impact approach for Enhancing Road safety
through More Effective communication Skills for driving instructors’ (HERMES) project began in March 2007 and was
completed in February 2010.
Its main aim was to ...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Friday, March 19, 2010,
DT1 changes for observer on test
Observer on test for category B (car) practical tests will be
implemented on 6 April 2010. This will need changes to how the examiner
administers part of the test.
The DT1 - the standard operating procedure that examiners follow -
has been updated to reflect these changes.
View
the DT1 (PDF, 780Kb)
Here’s the procedure that will be used from 6 April 2010:
In the waiting room:
The examiner will ask, ‘Would you like your instructor/acc...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Tuesday, February 23, 2010,
I've notied recently that many a learner after coming off the quicker roads (dual carriageways especially) tend to continue driving in the same fashion in one way or another. Either they continue to drive above 30mph or when approaching they wont come down to 15/10mph for any kind of junction so their MSM routine suffers (usually the gear change is absent).
So really try to make a mental note to yourself, after exiting those quicker roads, back to driving at the slower speeds. Same goes for ...
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Posted by Will Dracott on Monday, February 22, 2010,
Heavy rain due on Thursday morning, they have issued a "severe" warning. If you're on your test, make sure you know where the windscreen wipers are and keep a 4 second gap.
Learn more about how to drive in extreme weather with the onlie driving lessons -
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