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It's also worth looking at Young Driver: https://www.youngdriver.eu/lessons_and_experiences

You can buy one lesson at a time, so you aren't committed to a whole week in one go or going every single week. And the instructors are, in my experience, excellent at making safe driving fun for teenagers.

I have remained as an observer even if I have not been happy with IAM HQ for a long time In many ways, IAM HQ's direction seems at odds with the membership (at least, with its motorcycling and car enthusiast membership segments). How sustainable is it? For example, the over-simplistic "speedin...

The university city will be divided into six districts, and motorists will get fined if they leave their neighbourhood too often. Under the scheme proposed by the council, residents could drive to other districts on 100 days a year. It is famous as the home of Britain’s oldest university and studen...

waremark wrote:for you to be called Advanced, you have to demonstrate that you can maintain safety and smoothness when you are taking your spouse to A&E

So, it would be best if you rushed to A&E ASAP … before starting a ten-hour wait for an A&E clinician to be available

While I don’t want to start another debate on the merits of hi-viz vests, I was surprised that Username Kate’s observer asked her to wear one before her first observed ride. Shouldn’t associates wear their usual motorcycle clothing? If other drivers react differently to you wearing hi-viz, but a yel...

You’re lucky to have leather boots! Mine are newfangled microfibre, albeit it means they don’t need leather food. I used Nikwax leather cleaner – or warm water on a clean cloth – for my leathers, plus Duckswax ‘food’. I’m a complete convert to Duckswax – leather food for the connoisseur. It's the be...

While one person is hardly significant statistically, things I learned in advanced training have directly helped me avoid a couple of serious incidents. E.g., positioning towards the nearside meant I was already out of the way when an oncoming driver (whom I guessed was drunk or unwell) would have o...

Trouble is that there's little solid evidence that driver (and rider) education makes much difference to crash rates. It depends on the training. While I have read some of the research showing inadequate evidence of benefit, I also had access to my (former) company's fleet safety records. High-qual...

I encourage you to listen to this BBC podcast – it’s fascinating and thought-provoking. But the IAM’s representative (Neil Greig) accepts Vision Zero's removal of individual responsibility from the safety equation, focusing on “systems” managed by the authorities instead: https://www.bbc.co.uk/progr...

I included the qualifier. However, its length meant it was automatically cut from the title. Hence I edited the original post to start with: "Thankfully, this IAM Roadsmart press release is better nuanced than the last one". Title aside, I'm curious what's going on in IAM Roadsmart's Comms...