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General => General discussion => Topic started by: remlapeel on 03 July 2015, 08:47
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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
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Hope you aren't insured by Admiral then...
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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 :lipsrsealed:
Been driving your R enthusiastically :whistle:
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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. :tongue:
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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!
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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.
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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 :grin:
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
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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 :grin:
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?
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Not in Germany
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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 :grin:
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.
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I did one a few years back. We have average speed cameras on the main road to Norwich and they had also set up a mobile speed van which caught me doing 58 in a 50 (I have my suspicions the average cameras are dummy- I never saw them install electric and comms when they were erected)
Anyway I don't recall much of the day apart from a video with a gorilla and a blonde girl who was late to the brink of being refused entry, and she said 'I had to rush to get here' :laugh:
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I soppose it's better than points but it's all bull, most 99% of 30 40 50 60 mph zones probably had higher speed limits in previous years.
And the cars being driven on them didn't have big brakes that are found on newer cars.
Just control freaks dictating what you can and can't do.
Probably a script out on un agenda 21, not heard of agenda 21 google it and read the document.
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Went last Friday!
Left early for a 32 minute drive to get there for 08:45 to 12:45 class
Was late due to someone jumping off the bridge on the A13 / A406 North Circular and
M25 accident where a motorcyclist was killed by a women Romanian lorry driver,
closed the M25 causing grid lock around the Dartford crossing and A13
Arriving 1hr 25minutes late to find the both instructors taking the class are still stuck on the M25 :lipsrsealed:
Everyone that turned up apart from me was caught using their mobiles, I run a red light :embarrassed:
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If people bother to take notice and listen instead of whining that it's someone else's fault it's actually quite good. And remember if you weren't speeding you wouldn't be sitting in a room!!