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Report reveals socio-economic road accident divide

Posted by Will Dracott on Saturday, November 3, 2012, In : Motoring news

GREATER effort should be made to educate poorer socio-economic groups about road safety, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

In a policy paper entitled Social Factors in Road Safety, RoSPA looked at social factors including where people involved in accidents live and their family circumstances.

The organisation found, among other things, that children in families in the lowest income bracket cross 50% more roads than families in the highest. According to the ...
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Brain training for driving

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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Science and learning

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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