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Safety Features
In car safety has improves dramatically over the years, although pedestrian safety on impact is difficult to achieve, or define, in car technology has improved in leaps and bounds. Fatigue accounts for approximately 21% of fatalities and awareness is actually quite good amongst drivers, however, accepting that you are too tired to drive is rarely [...]
What is the future?
Road safety in the UK is better than before, with the 2010 figure being the best it has ever been since records began. However, despite the fact that casualty reduction partnerships have been around since 1916, tackling this difficult subject is not easy. The figures for 2011 are not looking so good, with a predicted [...]
Corporate Training
Looking for driver assessment? Looking to save money within the company network? Looking to raise awareness, responsibility and road safety knowledge? Corporate road safety training, from driver trainers who are experts in the field of eco-driving. Saving fuel, reducing costs, improving the level of driving for all company car drivers can help the economy locally [...]
ADI
Have you lost the enthusiasm that used to inspire you in your career, that couldn’t wait to be out in your car, teaching, feeling? Many of us remember those first few days of excitement after passing our exams, we were going to be better and more successful than the next person, we would produce the [...]
Train to be a Driving Instructor
Looking for a new career in 2012? We are open on 28th Jan, if you would like to call in for an informal chat with a trainer, there are also appointments available on that day. We pride ourselves on being professional yet in a relaxed atmosphere, enquiries on the phone or in the shop are [...]
Changes to training
Now a training standard has been publsihed, the DSA will be moving into changing many aspects of the future of new ADI’s, they will have a different entry requirement, according to the published transcript. So how does it affect ADI’s of long standing? Well mandatory CPD, previously not wanted by the Conservative government is now [...]
Pass rates published for ADI’s
Changes to the driving test have been on the cards for years, and now it appears they are about to reach fruition, with national associations campaigning on behalf of ADI’s for years for this modernisation process. Below is a letter from Charles Morton telling us just how soon this is going to take place. The [...]
10MPH Speeder
Many trainers in road safety believe that some form of compulsory maintainence for driving skills should be implemented, this story below surely has to support that: Essex Police have admitted a car chase only ended when an officer ran alongside the vehicle and told the driver to stop. A Ford Fiesta was seen driving the [...]
112 service
The EU Commision has once again highlighted the need for more effective emergency response, by suggesting all EU states should take up the manufacture of eCall in new vehicles, as response time saves lives. However the UK has no plans to embrace this at the present time. A letter from Philip Hammond MP to the [...]
Road Casualty Stats 2010
On 29th September 2011, the official road casualty statistics for GB were released, below is a condensed version, this will be followed by a full version. In 2010, there were a total of 208,648 casualties of all severities in road accidents reported to the police, 6 per cent lower than in 2009. There were 1,850 [...]
