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Originally Posted by andyl
I agree that driver education is important. So £60, 3 points and training seems a good method of dealing with offenders  |
No it isn't!! How is that going to stop someone on Income Support who will make an arrangement to pay it back at £1 per week?? How will it stop that person if they have blatant disregard for the points system and will drive if banned?
However if someone was educated well enough about the dangers of driving at speed (and overcome the "it'll never happen to me" mentality) then SURELY that will be more productive?
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Originally Posted by andyl
But if you are in charge of a vehicle you have to concentrate - yes, people have lapses. And there is nothing that irritates me more than people driving - at excess speed or not - who are oblivious to what's going on around them. They certainly should be a focus for police attention and awareness training. But when lack of concentration causes you to speed - well that's a frightening combination.
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Can I assume you're not a driver? I refuse to believe any driver who says they have never crept over the limit (even by 1mph) due to lack of concentration. It does not make you a bad person - it just means you need to try and be more alert in future. Again the police recognise this and the example is what happened to me in the situation I described a few posts back.