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I think I would like to see this incorporated into our laws here as German standards are high. The eldest Swiss guy? His daughter trained in Germany and one week after her German test .. set a standard which William and even Andreas's kids could not match in that she got a RoSPA Gold without any further training one week after passing her German test.

She just said the test which is acclaimed as "cream" here is not more demanding than the basic German L/test. She did not need to train further to pass this. I think this says much about standards here to be honest.


Which is my point. I think we need to get back to what we want our drivers to do to pass a test which will enable them to make the correct choices. Obviously we have a model from which we may borrow ideas, hell even the police have advanced and basic drivers surely we can borrow theirs.

Instead of having adverts of kids lying in the road saying "If you hit me at 40mph ..." we have adverts saying "Hey kids, if you don't pay attention when crossing the road and get hit by a car at 40mph ..." then we will have changed the emphasis on responsibilities.

Once we have exhausted those areas, which I believe will improve road safety in the long term, then we may need to look at whether we need to restrict new drivers more than we already do.


It surely has to be a matter of responsibility and a back to basics education as to common sense and good manners.

OK - so we do not speak ill of the dead - unless of course they died whilst driving a car or riding a motorbike .. and does not matter how the accident occurred .. somehow "it's all their fault" :roll:

Where my wife, Wildy was brought up, you can still be fined .. based on your income (or in the case of a child/student - the parental income :banghead:) for jay-walking, crossing on a "red man", loitering on a zebra and they will chuck you in jail if you walk across a fast road as well. (Mind you they fine for flushing the loo after 11 pm if in a block of flats and there are some odd laws about hanging out washing, using power tools in the garden and even washing the car on a Sunday :banghead: . But hey - this is to do with manners and observing a communal need for some peace and quiet at certain points of a lazy Sunday afternoon :wink:

This in the ever so "liberal" Switzerland which has its needle parks, a surprisingly tolerant atttitude towards drug taking and its euthanasia clinics as well.

But basically - we do need to back to the old ethic of "spare the rod/spoil the child" per the Bible Scripts. This does not mean "beating children or causing bodily harm to them" by the way. It means applying the right kind of discipline or rather ADVICE to ensure they follow a more fair minded and responsible path throughout their lives. It means not being angry when they do make silly mistakes .. not getting wound up when someone complains about their "exuberant behaviour" - but reining in that behaviour and focussing that youthful spirit into something more positive .. yet at the same time ensuring the youngster understands the skill of inter-acting and behaving properly within society and being accountable for his/her actions at all times too. It's difficult to define in reality. I do have various sanctions for our kids which range from "grounding" to "fining from their allowance" to "removing some of their fave toys for a firmly laid down period - usually up to a max of 3 days" to the "naughty step" which we have renamed as the "take five to calm down and then we can chat" step :lol:


But what matters here is that you do not ever rub the child's nose into their mistakes. You support them. They get into bother with the law? You do what you can to get the best outcome for them. I did so with my foster from hell in the past - and even managed to get him back into school and actually pass some exams too :bow: But this means work and I have to admit that far too many out there just do not want to do this and will blame everyone else for their woes for good measure too. :banghead:

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I have been unwilling to put a figure on a suitable acceleration limit because I think it is something which requires a discussion. However, nobody seems to want to discuss it , preferring to believe that joining motorways and overtaking slower cars will just naturally be more dangerous.


I'll take as much acceleration as I can afford. It's always a safety asset.

You're pretending that it might not be, but you have offered no evidence.

It's extremely boring.


No evidence ? You made a claim about an acceleration limiter being dangerous with no evidence. Lol. I can see why you might now think that evidence is important all of a sudden !


One doesn't need evidence to support the status quo.

You need evidence to justify a change. You're proposing a change without any evidence at all. That's both stupid and irresponsible.

I honestly don't see where the difference is between that and you suggesting that speed cameras can be dangerous , with nothing more than anecdotal evidence and personal opinion to back you up. If it's alright for you to do it why can nobody else use the same logic ?

It is after all the right way to approach problems when the measured benefit does not exist until the idea has been relaised physically and can then be measured.

You can point out misreporting of statistics as much as you want, but you have little physical evidence which you yourself have gathered to support your own claims about the negative effects of speed cameras.





But Chris.. the stats in my own hospital would suggest I am some kind of "god" capable of bringin' the dead back to life again.

Load of tosh.. My patients do die on me eventually. I can manage to accord them a bit more time and dignity and quality of life in some cases .. but somehow this gets missed in the stats as the lurgy which attacked their heart? Killed them eventually. Of course // if a donor turns up.. they might get some more years.. but then .. um.. supply and demand and the question of "match" .. er .. um.. er.. oh dear..

I guess I'm trying to say that stats do not give the whole picture. It's as Disreali observed ages ago..

Disraeli over 100 years ago now wrote:

There are Lies.. DAMNED LIES and STATISTICS :popcorn:




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It's equivalent to foisting an untested drug on healthy people.



Errr.. Wildy does her trials here. :paperbag:


Might have messed up who said what here .. :oops:

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You and me alike, let's not split hairs. Where I have no evidence it still does not mean the idea will not work, only that you don't have to support it, which i agree with. but coming out of the gate declaring an idea as stupid on grounds which later seem to contain a large level of misunderstanding of how the idea works is really is another level of meandering completely.

As for foisting untested drugs on healthy people it is nothing of the sort, by definition healthy people don't require drugs of any sort




No .. I agree they don't. But we have addicts who are a danger out there all the same :popcorn: But dealers do this. Medics do not. I have to know what the drug will do.. how it might affect my patient based on medical history and if there is an adverse reaction .. II have to modify immediately here.

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I note also that you have not yet commented on what you will be doing in 5 years time in terms of campaign plans. When the UK is ruled from Brussels then, and our transport policies have been unified with the continental ones are you confident that you will be able to keep alive the hope that one day we will see speed cameras removed for good ?


I shall continue to hold the makers of bad policy responsible wherever they work.


I hope you get a forum withdecisions them, but with the signing of the next treaty it we lose the right to veto some of our most sacred constitutional beliefs, adn when the final one is signed after that it becomes illegal to publish anything negative about the EU. That will be difficult to negate


Chris .. we have to challenge folk and I hope we will never see legislation of the sort which will give Adolf Hitler a victory long after his death. Such a treaty would seriously undermine why we wear poppies at this time of the year. :roll:

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Chris .. we have to challenge folk and I hope we will never see legislation of the sort which will give Adolf Hitler a victory long after his death. Such a treaty would seriously undermine why we wear poppies at this time of the year. :roll:


I appreciate all of yoru comments but I must pick up especially on this one.

Hoping will not change the path f what has begun now with us entering Europe.
The recent discussion about the 6th treaty which forced Brown to change the whcih veto's we were going to lose and whcih we could keep has been said by Mandelson to ammount to the same thing. He should know, he writes the plans in that respect.
We have just about signed away the last right to veto compulsory entry in our national entity , to the European Union. More clearly perhaps, at the moment we need to do two things in order to leave the EU, and only two.

The first is to hold a referendum, and the second is to repeal the Act of parliament covering our entry into the common market, from the 1970's. The 6th treaty has the ability to take away from us the right to repeal our acts of parliament to such a degree that we have no more say , and that complete dissolution into the EU constitution is the only predictable outcome.

Why don't you hear about it, you might wonder. There are many high profile stories in the news so that suggests that the news media 'works'. I know it's cranky to suggest that some of the stories could be made to be deliberately protracted to keep the attention of the public away from the politics behind the scenes, but it really can appear to be happening that way sometimes.

Here's a few collected facts, take note of the one which will ban the UK independence party because under EU law it is illegal to criticise the EU





Our Westminster Parliament immediately becomes pointess as its remaining powers are transferred to Europe.

It is the formal end of Britain and England as nations.

Britain's 153 embassies around the world will be closed as the ink from the Queen's signature dries. (As Tony Blair refused to admit this has been agreed to, Jose Zapatero, the Prime Minister of Spain, confirmed it in a February 2005 radio broadcast.)

After the EU abolishes our 48 counties your address will change from 4 High St, Taunton, Somerset, Great Britain, to 4 High St, Taunton, Area K, European Union. (The glorious EU county "The South West Region" has had the postal address "Area K" assigned for over a decade.)

The Official National Anthem of the EU, which you should have known since 1971 is based on the melody "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven, formally replaces God save the Queen. The EU flag replaces the Union Jack, the red, blue and white nautical ensigns etc. (The EU Commission has already ordered (24.11.2005) our Merchant Navy to fly the EU flag in place of the red Ensign.)

The EU takes ownership and command of our Police, Army, Royal Navy, RAF, nuclear weapons, currency reserves, North Sea Oil. (See the EU Constitution below)

Serving officers in our police, army, navy and air force already know they will have to take an oath to the EU instead of to the Queen. If they don't many have been told they will be dismissed. The EU will have complete military control of the UK.

The UK Independence Party will be banned under the 1999 ruling of the European court of Justice case c274/99, where it was held that it is illegal to criticise the EU.

The Conservative, Labour and Lib-dem parties will be abolished (only pan EU parties like the EPP or PES are allowed -see clause I.46.4 of the EU Constitution). It will then be blindingly obvious to even the dumbest politician there is no reason to keep Westmister open, and that the EU has the legal right to close it.

Many people will be excluded from the jobs they know best, as the EU's demand that you must pay to be re-taught the job, and pay for a certificate before you can be employed, becomes universal.

Hundreds of thousands more small businesses will close on the enforcement of the remaining 100,000 EU regulations our government has already passed. Several million will be permanently unemployed as a result.

We will all be criminalised by the 107,000 regulations. Its impossible to know or understand 107,000 regulations, and the poor can't possibly afford to comply. We will all be subject to frequent fines and arrest as a result. Here are just 4 examples:

Under EU regulations it is now illegal for you to repair your plumbing, electrics or your car (from 1st January 2006). If you buy a boat over six feet long, built after the EU Recreational Craft Directive of 1999, and don't pay the EU £4,000 to "measure" the boat, you get 6 months imprisonment. We will live under permanent threat of arrest and fear of the knock at the door that takes us away.

Massive corporations will do well, but with huge immigration allowed from the EU, they'll be able to pay minimum wage everywhere, not just in the provinces as they do now. If you don't accept the minimum they'll employ a Pole or a Czekoslovakian.

Big corporations will also have a near monopoly (with the government) on employment and will be able to dictate unfavourable terms to staff without fear of contradiction.

Plum government jobs and corruption will ensure the wealth of politicians, bureaucrats, their businesses and associates at all levels of government, including local government and amongst our 7000+ quangos.

Society will divide into two: the remaining 60% of us will be either unemployed or treated abysmally on minimum wage.

Taxes will rise more steeply to pay for the even larger explosion in government growth and corruption

There will be no redress through local democracy because there won't be any. The nine UK regional governments, which replace our 48 counties and councillors, will be unelected (see the European Regionisation plan). Our only vote is to the powerless EU parliament. We will be ruled by the 25 unelected Commisssioners, and have have no redress at any level; we will be as poor but have less freedom than Soviet Citizens.

If we demonstrate or protest we can be be seized and relocated to another region. The EU Arrest Warrant and Civil Contingencies Act 2004, with 20 other oppressive Acts the Queen has signed between 1972 and 2005, give the government absolute power over us. They can shoot us if they wish with no legal comeback - the shootings of innocents Philip Prout and Jean de Menezes were entirely legal under EU law.

The tendancy to pick on Muslims, as Germany used to pick on Jews, has already begun. Europe will be a very nasty place.

How long will the EU last?
Eventually, perhaps 15 years down the track, Europe will collapse under the weight of its own corruption, bureaucracy, and regulations. There will be so few productive businesses that even at 100% tax rates we will not be able to support the massive, corrupt and wasteful government. Many of us will be starving in the lead up to the collapse. After the collapse we may be able to leave the EU, if a dictator has not taken advantage of the complete absence of democratic checks and balances by seizing power. The Constitution of the EU is similar to the Soviet Union's. That dictator is free to choose between a Soviet or Nazi style government. Then it could take 70 years to break free.


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I am sure you must have read D'Estaing's reservations as to the "cosmetics" of the current "Treaty" in which - according to the former French President - we appear to be giving away essential rights.

I pray we keep sovereignty. I've Uncles who I never met. They died fighting in WW2.

The Swiss have a pal.. a German one. He has an an elderly relative who was part of the White Rose movement. He has one relative who was hanged by piano wire from simply distributing some leaflets stating what was going on in the Death Camps. The ringleaders were medical students and were guillotined in Strasbourg 1944.. "Le pont de la rose blanche" over the Strasbourg side of the Rhine is named after them.


I guess I am saying that I really hope and pray we do keep common sense.


I agree 100% with you over the daft laws over DIY. I enjoy fixing things about my home. I take a pride in this and smug knowledge that I've not parted with hard cash for a sub-standard job by a so-called "tradesman" :popcorn:#


#To the Mad Doc - I naturally exclude his former foster - and now trainee plumber who fixed his flush in his loo without allegedly sucking in his teeth and charging a week's wages for the privilege :wink:


But back to your original thought .. and I confess I have not yet read through this thread.

Sigh.. Young drivers? Born again bikers?

My lads seem to scrape up the remains of more middle aged bikers than we do young qualified drivers.

My lads on the other hand scrape up the remains of 15/16 year olds who TWOC and the rest of our KSI? Thugs who use our roads as a rat run of major crime peddling from Newcastle to Cleveland :banghead:

Not an excuse .. but blatant facts. By the way /./we are still below average on KSI by virtue of visible presence here. :wink:

We do have police liaison going into schools and colleges to educate and we regularly hold Open Days for young drivers and bikers. These are very popular as we give them a full track day/skid pan session and plenty of COAST advice on these days.


We do publish dates on website and in local press too.
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Please do attend these. We promote safety first and we do only punish as a last resort or if no other option open to us here,


I am trying to say that we try to do the job professionally and properly - with some professional - cough - discretion - cough - but will never compromise on safety led policing :wink: :popcorn:

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I am sure you must have read D'Estaing's reservations as to the "cosmetics" of the current "Treaty" in which - according to the former French President - we appear to be giving away essential rights.

I pray we keep sovereignty. I've Uncles who I never met. They died fighting in WW2.

The Swiss have a pal.. a German one. He has an an elderly relative who was part of the White Rose movement. He has one relative who was hanged by piano wire from simply distributing some leaflets stating what was going on in the Death Camps. The ringleaders were medical students and were guillotined in Strasbourg 1944.. "Le pont de la rose blanche" over the Strasbourg side of the Rhine is named after them.


I guess I am saying that I really hope and pray we do keep common sense.


I agree 100% with you over the daft laws over DIY. I enjoy fixing things about my home. I take a pride in this and smug knowledge that I've not parted with hard cash for a sub-standard job by a so-called "tradesman" :popcorn:#


#To the Mad Doc - I naturally exclude his former foster - and now trainee plumber who fixed his flush in his loo without allegedly sucking in his teeth and charging a week's wages for the privilege :wink:


But back to your original thought .. and I confess I have not yet read through this thread.

Sigh.. Young drivers? Born again bikers?

My lads seem to scrape up the remains of more middle aged bikers than we do young qualified drivers.

My lads on the other hand scrape up the remains of 15/16 year olds who TWOC and the rest of our KSI? Thugs who use our roads as a rat run of major crime peddling from Newcastle to Cleveland :banghead:

Not an excuse .. but blatant facts. By the way /./we are still below average on KSI by virtue of visible presence here. :wink:

We do have police liaison going into schools and colleges to educate and we regularly hold Open Days for young drivers and bikers. These are very popular as we give them a full track day/skid pan session and plenty of COAST advice on these days.


We do publish dates on website and in local press too.
]

Please do attend these. We promote safety first and we do only punish as a last resort or if no other option open to us here,


I am trying to say that we try to do the job professionally and properly - with some professional - cough - discretion - cough - but will never compromise on safety led policing :wink: :popcorn:


Maybe as somebody connected professionaly to road safety more than most, althoguh it remaisn an individuals duty to be safe, what are your thoughts on the subject of educating people more in order to bring about the magnitude of change some epoel are looking for.

Reading this site for even a minute or two, and anyone could be forgiven for thinking that a great disaster is about to about to happen. In reality, and as you'll see from reading this thread, I maintain that if we have one of the safest road systems in Britain, and we already have a driver education scheme very much improved on previosu versions, the two must be going hand-in hand somewhere along the line.

If the governemnt are making huge mistakes in their reporting of accident causuality, and if in fact there is scope for education to be used, then perhaps you can say what can be done in this area. Nobody else seems to be abole to say. perhaps that is because they feel that to suggest something which may ulitimately only be achievable through the restriction of equal access to all vehicles for a period of time might be the only viable answer.

If that isn't their reason for keep quiet, then I can't think what is.


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I'm an 18 year old driver, I passed at 17 but didn't start driving until I was 18. I had a large gap between my test and my first car, so for a while I'd virtually forgotten how to drive and I can definitely say that I was a self-diagnosed poor driver at that time. I'd also add that I knew I was high-risk at this point in time and purposely took it easy for a couple of months to get to an acceptable level of driving, I certainly had no misconceptions about my own abilities as a new driver.

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I'm an 18 year old driver, I passed at 17 but didn't start driving until I was 18. I had a large gap between my test and my first car, so for a while I'd virtually forgotten how to drive and I can definitely say that I was a self-diagnosed poor driver at that time. I'd also add that I knew I was high-risk at this point in time and purposely took it easy for a couple of months to get to an acceptable level of driving, I certainly had no misconceptions about my own abilities as a new driver.

Nice to be here, by the way.


With respect, might I suggest that because you have not even been driving for one year that you aren't able to yet say wether or not you have had any misconceptions. Few people I know would try to be succinct about their abilities even with ten year's experience behind them


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I'm an 18 year old driver, I passed at 17 but didn't start driving until I was 18. I had a large gap between my test and my first car, so for a while I'd virtually forgotten how to drive and I can definitely say that I was a self-diagnosed poor driver at that time. I'd also add that I knew I was high-risk at this point in time and purposely took it easy for a couple of months to get to an acceptable level of driving, I certainly had no misconceptions about my own abilities as a new driver.

Nice to be here, by the way.


With respect, might I suggest that because you have not even been driving for one year that you aren't able to yet say wether or not you have had any misconceptions. Few people I know would try to be succinct about their abilities even with ten year's experience behind them


No you might not :lol:

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I'm an 18 year old driver, I passed at 17 but didn't start driving until I was 18. I had a large gap between my test and my first car, so for a while I'd virtually forgotten how to drive and I can definitely say that I was a self-diagnosed poor driver at that time. I'd also add that I knew I was high-risk at this point in time and purposely took it easy for a couple of months to get to an acceptable level of driving, I certainly had no misconceptions about my own abilities as a new driver.

Nice to be here, by the way.


With respect, might I suggest that because you have not even been driving for one year that you aren't able to yet say wether or not you have had any misconceptions. Few people I know would try to be succinct about their abilities even with ten year's experience behind them


No you might not :lol:


That's just as I thought.
Perhaps insurance companies are correct to increase premiums for young drivers , after all it would appear that young drivers aren't prepared to stand up for themselves !


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I am sure you must have read D'Estaing's reservations as to the "cosmetics" of the current "Treaty" in which - according to the former French President - we appear to be giving away essential rights.

I pray we keep sovereignty. I've Uncles who I never met. They died fighting in WW2.

The Swiss have a pal.. a German one. He has an an elderly relative who was part of the White Rose movement. He has one relative who was hanged by piano wire from simply distributing some leaflets stating what was going on in the Death Camps. The ringleaders were medical students and were guillotined in Strasbourg 1944.. "Le pont de la rose blanche" over the Strasbourg side of the Rhine is named after them.


I guess I am saying that I really hope and pray we do keep common sense.


I agree 100% with you over the daft laws over DIY. I enjoy fixing things about my home. I take a pride in this and smug knowledge that I've not parted with hard cash for a sub-standard job by a so-called "tradesman" :popcorn:#


#To the Mad Doc - I naturally exclude his former foster - and now trainee plumber who fixed his flush in his loo without allegedly sucking in his teeth and charging a week's wages for the privilege :wink:


But back to your original thought .. and I confess I have not yet read through this thread.

Sigh.. Young drivers? Born again bikers?

My lads seem to scrape up the remains of more middle aged bikers than we do young qualified drivers.

My lads on the other hand scrape up the remains of 15/16 year olds who TWOC and the rest of our KSI? Thugs who use our roads as a rat run of major crime peddling from Newcastle to Cleveland :banghead:

Not an excuse .. but blatant facts. By the way /./we are still below average on KSI by virtue of visible presence here. :wink:

We do have police liaison going into schools and colleges to educate and we regularly hold Open Days for young drivers and bikers. These are very popular as we give them a full track day/skid pan session and plenty of COAST advice on these days.


We do publish dates on website and in local press too.
]

Please do attend these. We promote safety first and we do only punish as a last resort or if no other option open to us here,


I am trying to say that we try to do the job professionally and properly - with some professional - cough - discretion - cough - but will never compromise on safety led policing :wink: :popcorn:


Maybe as somebody connected professionaly to road safety more than most, althoguh it remaisn an individuals duty to be safe, what are your thoughts on the subject of educating people more in order to bring about the magnitude of change some epoel are looking for.



I think most prefer being told off or penalty pointed by a person than a machine. Our RPU will try to educate whaever their professionally made decision. How else do you educate or try to change for the better ? :?

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Reading this site for even a minute or two, and anyone could be forgiven for thinking that a great disaster is about to about to happen. In reality, and as you'll see from reading this thread, I maintain that if we have one of the safest road systems in Britain, and we already have a driver education scheme very much improved on previosu versions, the two must be going hand-in hand somewhere along the line.



Oh.. sadly .. we have more incidents with both the young and born again bikers than any other group here. We tryo to address with our work shops aimed more at the youngsters admitedly.. but I'd say all new drivers and bikers would be just as welcome to these now anual events here :wink:

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If the governemnt are making huge mistakes in their reporting of accident causuality, and if in fact there is scope for education to be used, then perhaps you can say what can be done in this area. Nobody else seems to be abole to say. perhaps that is because they feel that to suggest something which may ulitimately only be achievable through the restriction of equal access to all vehicles for a period of time might be the only viable answer.

If that isn't their reason for keep quiet, then I can't think what is.


Let's be acidly blunt. ANY POLITICIAN of whatever flavour will seek self promotion and pats on the back and spin the totally subjectively positive aspects so well that the gullible are taken in. Hitler set this standard and that marvellous BBC prog on Nightmare Politics - drawing comparison -= was Aunty Beeb at one of her finest hours of "expose" :popcorn:

Stats? Peer reviews // depends on open minds and objectivity and this process does not find right or wrong but merely does a "walk- through test" of the research to verify its logic with regard to conclusion.

As I understand it.. any one who thinks a peer review proves 100% verifcation of a topic which is in itself subject to muilitple chance/fate/co-incidence/circumstance cannot be regarded as an "academic" :wink:

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Basically, it doesn't matter what rules they apply to limit performance, as I'll make it my business to get around it!
Damn the interfering busybodies..

If you'd seriously like to reduce deaths amongst the young, teach them this, and teach it early.
When you drive a car during lessons, invariably there is only yourself and the instructor in the car. He'll have his beady eye on you at all times.
After you've passed your test, you'll be out alone for the first time.
All your mates will want a ride in your new car with your new licence in your hot little hand, and they'll all pile in.
You'll want to impress them with your driving skills. Fact.
You will not appreciate the effect of driving faster than usual with a great deal more weight in your cheap little "first" car.
You will leave the road, entirely on your own, and crash.
This happens ALL THE TIME, and is a constant in the accident statistics.
Am I the only one who's noticed this ? I can only conclude so.


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I think the scenario you put forward is known only too well. The only problem is how to actually stop it happening. You suggest teaching them that this happens but unfortunately, this will sound like mum or dad saying "be careful" before they go out for the evening.

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malcolmw wrote:
I think the scenario you put forward is known only too well. The only problem is how to actually stop it happening.


Perhaps a bit more imagination from the insurance industry.

I mean is a Mondeo really that much more "Dangerous" than a clio??

Does it really warrent a much higher insurance premium??

My first "cheap" car was a MkIV Zodiac. My brothers first car was a Rover V8. (We both then went on to XJ12's :D )

The point is that, back in the dark ages when I was young, the insurance companies had a more "realistic" atitude towards insurance premiums for young drivers with larger cars.

I mean they still had groupings, but they didnt laugh hysterically or try to charge you a years wages as a premium for a larger car.


Just a thought!

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All you have to do is point out the effect of driving a car that's overloaded. What does it take?


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enginetuner wrote:
All you have to do is point out the effect of driving a car that's overloaded. What does it take?

The youngsters to actually listen.

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