Speed awareness

[remlapeel]

Currently sat in a cheap hotel without air conditioning for my first speed awareness course.....anyone done one of these? It hasn't started and I'm already bored

[fredgroves]

Hope you aren't insured by Admiral then...

[Booth11]

Currently sat in a cheap hotel without air conditioning for my first speed awareness course.....anyone done one of these? It hasn't started and I'm already bored

No, I never speed 

Been driving your R enthusiastically 

[monkeyhanger]

Never done one - Been caught once, by a mobile unit and at 46mph in a 30 zone (that used to be a 50 zone), I was too far past redemption via speed awareness course.

Some might argue that the faster you were going over the speed limit, the more you need the speed awareness course. 

[remlapeel]

Annoyingly this is a remnant of my GTI days. 47 in a 40 on a dual carriage way, that 100 yards up the road is a 70mph.

Ah well, the course was crap, literally learnt one thing. Loads of the older generation seemed to learn a lot. (55 plus mainly ). And they say it's the young ones that like to speed!

[GTI_Ant]

Annoyingly this is a remnant of my GTI days. 47 in a 40 on a dual carriage way, that 100 yards up the road is a 70mph.

Ah well, the course was crap, literally learnt one thing. Loads of the older generation seemed to learn a lot. (55 plus mainly ). And they say it's the young ones that like to speed!

That's rough.  Compared to the criminals I see on a regular basis.  Only about an hour ago I was overtaken in a 40 zone on the A30 by an A6, he was doing about 70, on the chevrons just before a centre island in the road.  If I was going any faster he would have ploughed into it.

[wigit]

I went on one a few years ago and know two people going on them this week

Mine was predominately women who had been nicked on the school run, i think i did mine a few days after coming back from Germany so had admitted driving at 165mph on a motorway 

Bits I found useful were the rural A and B roads and added spotting of danger, this area has had biggest impact and also reiterating the space between vehciles in order to have time to react, all be it the gap is often taken up by others who see this as an opportunity

The 30mph was laid on a bit thick for the school run brigade who were the most hypocritical of the lot

[CraigW]

I went on one a few years ago and know two people going on them this week

Mine was predominately women who had been nicked on the school run, i think i did mine a few days after coming back from Germany so had admitted driving at 165mph on a motorway 

Bits I found useful were the rural A and B roads and added spotting of danger, this area has had biggest impact and also reiterating the space between vehciles in order to have time to react, all be it the gap is often taken up by others who see this as an opportunity

The 30mph was laid on a bit thick for the school run brigade who were the most hypocritical of the lot

You are joking? Surely 165mph is an automatic ban?

[VW BUSH]

Not in Germany

[GTI_Ant]

I went on one a few years ago and know two people going on them this week

Mine was predominately women who had been nicked on the school run, i think i did mine a few days after coming back from Germany so had admitted driving at 165mph on a motorway 

Bits I found useful were the rural A and B roads and added spotting of danger, this area has had biggest impact and also reiterating the space between vehciles in order to have time to react, all be it the gap is often taken up by others who see this as an opportunity

The 30mph was laid on a bit thick for the school run brigade who were the most hypocritical of the lot

Most of the school run brigade are running hideous 2 ton diesel Chelsea tractors that are coating the kids lungs with soot.  They would be the first to complain if they saw these abominations tearing through their neighbourhood at 40mph.