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This topic was suggested by a guest so I thought I'd have a look and see if other people think that these courses are all about making money. It certainly looks that way. Personally I've neen on a couple of them and found them beneficial and I think they are better than just simply getting penalty points.
What do you think?
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What fun. Four hours of arse numbing boredom being patronised and treated like a naughty child.
Got a letter for doing 35 in a 30. I was in a transit van, going downhill while looking for a industrial estate. Hardly ripping up the tarmac.
When the guy was going on about the police vans being clearly marked, I told him about how they operate near to where I work. There's a lay by where lorries park up and the police hide behind the last lorry and as you approach, step out with the speed gun to try catch you. No they don't, was his reply. I told him to go down that road and he'll see for himself, but he still denied it. H didn't like me after that.
End of the day it didn't change my driving at all. Just £75 wasted.
16/08/20 Ray
Got a letter for doing 35 in a 30. I was in a transit van, going downhill while looking for a industrial estate. Hardly ripping up the tarmac.
When the guy was going on about the police vans being clearly marked, I told him about how they operate near to where I work. There's a lay by where lorries park up and the police hide behind the last lorry and as you approach, step out with the speed gun to try catch you. No they don't, was his reply. I told him to go down that road and he'll see for himself, but he still denied it. H didn't like me after that.
End of the day it didn't change my driving at all. Just £75 wasted.
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Most of the people leaving these courses after four hours will soon be back to their same driving styles and thinking what a waste of my time that was. In fact, if the truth was revealed the money is a vital part of police funding and private speed companies incomes. So yes, they are money making enterprises.
29/01/19 Jethro
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Contrary to the published statements from the speed awareness departments that your three points are deleted after three years is in fact not true. I can assure you a record is kept for a geart deal longer by the police. Getting them to admit to this fact will take an injuction through the courts under the freedom of public infomation act, and even then the police will make it difficult to obtain the said records. Don't think for one moment you have privacy from the system, once you have been recorded, you are a known figure to them.
10/09/18 Guest
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I did a speed awareness course and it made me appreciate why it's a big deal.
Thank goodness my 3 points have been wiped off now.
There were drivers who claim 50 years experience and they did not know everything, some of the people had exceeded the speed limits by at least 10 mph and they were vex at the instructor having to do the course. Well I suppose unless someone they know got killed by a speeder, they will not appreciate why speed limits exists. I know people who have been banned for 6months or even a year and have 12 points and are still driving and they pay less insurance than me. Not sure how that works all I now is that I do not want to get points or bans or be responsible for a persons injury or death.
10/09/18 drivesolid
Thank goodness my 3 points have been wiped off now.
There were drivers who claim 50 years experience and they did not know everything, some of the people had exceeded the speed limits by at least 10 mph and they were vex at the instructor having to do the course. Well I suppose unless someone they know got killed by a speeder, they will not appreciate why speed limits exists. I know people who have been banned for 6months or even a year and have 12 points and are still driving and they pay less insurance than me. Not sure how that works all I now is that I do not want to get points or bans or be responsible for a persons injury or death.
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Iv'e just been on a speed awereness course. What the instructor taught was from the book of rules and regs with lots more logical things we should all know as drivers. But in the real world these courses have as much impact as a snowballs chance in hell. I suppose the money might go to good causes but my instinct is that someone is making a mint.
09/08/17 Stick float
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GOM, Couldn't resist posting after all this time. Nice to see you are not one of those brainwashed into believing Speed courses are having a benificial effect. I have two retired traffic policemen in our golf circle, they have now revealed these courses are a complete sham and have little if any on road safety. As they say, "When running in the herd, you keep up, or you get trappled on". Try sticking to 30 mph in the rush hour and see what the tail angry back behind you is like.
03/08/17 Next
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The GOM had to go on one of these once, he said it was politically correct rubbish. They are just there to make money, as are many speed limits these days. Fortunately I've never been caught!
I break one of the local speed limits nearly every time I get in my car as most of them where I live are set too low. The road between where we live and the nearest town used to be 60mph, a few years ago it was reduced to 40mph for no reason that I can see. It was quite safe at 60mph on some stretches in the good conditions, and of course still is.
The only accident I have ever been at fault in was where I clipped someone's bumper in a car park. Somebody drove into me once (his fault, he paid my excess) and somebody else drove into my car once when it was parked under a streetlight, and I wasn't in it at the time.
Most accidents are like these, occurring at low speeds.
When I learned to drive, just over 40 years ago, I learned to drive to the conditions of weather, the road and amount of traffic. Mind you, back then the speed limits were fairly sensible. Since then they have been lowered considerably even though cars now are much better at handling and stopping. Nonsense!
02/08/17 grumpyoldwoman
I break one of the local speed limits nearly every time I get in my car as most of them where I live are set too low. The road between where we live and the nearest town used to be 60mph, a few years ago it was reduced to 40mph for no reason that I can see. It was quite safe at 60mph on some stretches in the good conditions, and of course still is.
The only accident I have ever been at fault in was where I clipped someone's bumper in a car park. Somebody drove into me once (his fault, he paid my excess) and somebody else drove into my car once when it was parked under a streetlight, and I wasn't in it at the time.
Most accidents are like these, occurring at low speeds.
When I learned to drive, just over 40 years ago, I learned to drive to the conditions of weather, the road and amount of traffic. Mind you, back then the speed limits were fairly sensible. Since then they have been lowered considerably even though cars now are much better at handling and stopping. Nonsense!
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Speed awarness courses, nice little earner for themselves, the Police and Government. The agencies have no intention of cutting out speeding. The Government has cut back on the Police budget, so speeding fines are the answer to subsidise the lose of income.
02/08/17 Next
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I was caught doing 36 mph in a 30 posted limit, Guilty as charged. The speed awareness people could not get me onto a course for eight weeks as they were that busy in all areas around my location. YET, it only took them three days to get into my bank account, say no more.
31/07/17 Snooper user.
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George