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WRONG POSITIONING OF HEAD RESTRAINT 🙁 Are You Risking Serious Injury? Many drivers and passengers are not setting their head restraints properly and leaving themselves vulnerable to whiplash injury. Each year 250,000 motorists suffer whiplash injuries, roughly 25,000 are left with some forum of permanent disability, 46% of rear end collisions account for whiplash, 16% […]

Travel Safely This Festive Time As we are all well aware don’t drink and drive If you have had ANY alcohol don’t get behind the steering wheel Take care of each other if you are at a party and your instinct tells you someone is about to drink and drive, stop them – call a […]

SEAT BELTS – BEST INVENTION Nowadays it is hard to imagine riding in a vehicle not wearing a seat belt (but there are still many drivers not taking notice), the three-point safety belt now standard in cars was invented by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin, and of course was fitted to the first Volvo’s in 1959. […]

Where B this Sign – A Sign of the Times During this last week I have been doing several sessions of driver training involving very busy Motorways, and one Question has come up a lot during the briefing, on how much todays drivers really know about our Motorway networks? It is the sign now seen […]

RUNNING FLAT IS STAYING SAFE A Major Tyre safety group are alarmed at the number of drivers who are replacing the RUN FLAT tyres fitted to their vehicles, with standard type tyres… Many motorists are finding it hard to reduce their maintenance costs, and are tempted to use this idea. Run flat tyres have a […]

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLE Well I suppose the day was not far away, yes in car WiFi, just recently released to a 3G network. The network generates a in car mobile wireless hotspot using a MiFi adaptor. So only Passengers can enjoy using their laptops on the way to the shops. It states NOT TO […]

THE SYSTEM LEADS TO FULL CONTROL In every walk of life we all work or keep to some sort of system, perhaps working on the computer or attending weekly sessions at the gym. So in our course of safe driving we must keep and drive to a system, once we are behind the wheel, in […]

ROAD SAFETY PAST AND PRESENT I wonder how many of you can remember way back when, perhaps the date the Driving Test was introduced!! 1931 :Saw the first edition of the Highway Code 1934 :Driving test was introduced 1935 :The 30mph came to our towns and villages1960 :The MOT Test was started 1965 :The introduction […]

WARMING UP TO BRIGHTER LIGHTS I am sure this winter 2010, will be recorded as the coldest since probably since the early eighties, this has really caused havoc across all the country. Many new factories, offices and entertainment halls were closed really making it an extended Christmas holiday, once again the road conditions were as […]

Test observer in the back seat? Over the years every driving test candidate COULD ask the Examiner if their Driving Instructor could sit in the back of the car during their driving test (the instructor was not allowed to ask), the Examiner would never refuse… Driving Instructors really did not like the idea as they […]

BRAKING AWAY Many drivers in the last few weeks will have experienced, perhaps taken by real surprise at the dreadful road conditions (no not those dreadful potholes now appearing – another story later) the ones late being gritted or not even at all. Watching drivers in front who have not got their timing correct as […]

LIPSTICK IN THE MIRROR How many times do you drive along and the driver behind is travelling much too close, not leaving a minimum of 2 seconds or 4 seconds in poor conditions.The driving standards now seem to be GO GO GO nobody drives as if they enjoy driving. Sorry Girls but I just need […]

You Need Handsso use the PULL PUSH driving technique One of the most important techniques of learning to control a motor vehicle is the use of the steering wheel. In order to turn left and right correctly and not cut corners or go too wide, the good old pull push to feed the wheel became […]

WHAT? NO TEST? Thought I would just highlight a conversation that I tend to get involved with many times during the year, the question is “how do I apply to take another driving test when I reach the age of 70” (remember your driving licence expires at the age of 70 and the photo card […]