Tuesday, February 21, 2012
National Speed Awareness Course: Famous People....
During yesterday's Nat Speed Awareness course in Oakwood Park House, Maidstone they made a point of asking us to switch off mobile phones and remove them from sight. The reason being that, in the past, participants on the course have monkeyed around by secretly videoing the sessions and later posting them on YouTube and other social network sites. Well I can assure you there were no monkeys on my course, although there might have been at least one gorilla! But were there any famous people? Would I be in breach of confidentiality if I told you that a certain Top Gear presenter may have been present? Well I don't recall signing anything! I'd better check just in case though....
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You still haven't told us whether you attended the course on a voluntary basis, or if plod forced your attendance for being a naughty boy behind the wheel!
PB, where have you been? Regular readers will know that TB was doing 53 on the Frant Road last November. You must have missed the A board saga as well.
Much as I wish I could just be invited on these things for research and blogging purposes I'm afraid, in this case, the "invitation" was more a case of: take the course or take the points (and fine.) In other words: an offer I couldn't refuse!
That said I do keep a totally clean licence, which is good and also cheaper for insurance purposes. I'm told that insurance companies are getting wise to this little trick though and may be taking National Speed Course "invitations" into account at some point in the near future. So slow down everyone. I may even be self righteous enough to blog my own tips for staying within the speed limit in due course....
Thank's, I checked back on last November's postings and read all about TB's brush with the law!
I'm back up to speed now, if you'll pardon the pun!!
All seems very smug. So glad you saved on your insurance. My sister was killed by a speeding driver. She made the mistake of stepping into the road when some c*nt in an audi mowed her down doing fifty in the thirty limit Heathfield. Oh how we chuckled. Especially when the driver got off with an 18 month ban and a suspended six month jail sentence. They estimated she travelled 40 feet through the air to the actual place she died. That was where her skull impacted the kerb at the side of the road. We knew that was the impact point because her head left a ten foot trail of blood and brains. I'm so glad there is a light hearted side.
sebfox: You are right. This all is in danger of being a little on the smug side about what is a very serious issue. You highlight the seriousness of the issue in a powerful way and obviously it has effected you personally very tragically. I don't think anyone here would argue that speeding is a good thing. There is a world of difference between driving recklessly and dangerously and being caught on a clear open road and being nabbed by a speed camera. No other cars in sight, no other person in sight. One thing that does stand out from attending the course is that it's possible to drive at an inappropriate speed, especially in urban areas, without breaking the speed limit which, in many ways, is worse than breaking the limit on a motor way or duel carriageway. In fact that is how most accidents involving cars happen. The vast majority of fatalities from road accidents are in built up areas not on open country roads or motorways as you might expect to be the case. I'm not saying that, in any way, excuses speeding and, actually, I think everyone should be encouraged to attend one of these Speed Awareness Courses whether they've been caught speeding or not. Let's face it there aren't many of us who absolutely never go over the speed limit....
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