OT Speed awareness courses

[F]

It's not.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

Read the other posts before replying.

[Tim Streater]

My dizzle C4 has one of those clutchless autos, 6-speed. It'll typically be in 3rd or 4th in town.

[Vir Campestris]

They probably won't bother to check until you claim. At which point you'll find "driving without insurance" added to the charge list.

Andy

[gremlin_95]

My Brother attended a course not so long ago, when asked what they learnt at the end of the session, someone said they learnt 'not to get caught' again :)

[Gefreiter Krueger]

Incorrect. About three claims have been made against me while I had points but didn't tell them.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

If that were true, people would be being punished for being forgetful.

[F]

It's still not usually 60mph.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

Most single carriageways are 60.

[charles]

Single carriageways without a lower limit posted are 60mph. Round here they are generally 50mph or even 40mph - but that's Surrey Highways for you.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

It's more countrysideish round here, so most don't have lower limits until you're in a built up area. Or roadworks. We mustn't endanger all those traffic cones after all.

[Andrew Gabriel]

I've never been asked about having been on a course (but I haven't been on a course anyway).

We were having a conversation at work about points (someone was on 9 points). The consensus was that for most insurance companies, 3 points on a driving license which was previously clean for 20+ years didn't impact premiums, but more than 3 points does, as does routinely maintaining points on your license.

[F]

The reference was to dual carriageways.

And please fix your over long sig.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

I misread it, moron.

It's random and will be any length I want it to be.

[Bob Eager]

(sigh) but you said 'dual'. We know that single carriageways can be 60mph.

[charles]

Here, it's the countryside - narrow lanes, etc, - that have the lower limits

[Gefreiter Krueger]

That's why I said "Read the other posts before replying." In the other posts I explained I misread dual as single.

[Gefreiter Krueger]

How odd. I've never seen a lane with a limit on it, and always thought it crazy that you could go faster on a narrow road with blind bends than in a built up area on a straight with excellent visibility.

[tim......]

speed limits aren't there to teach you to dive

there're there to stop you annoying the neighbours

tim

[Gefreiter Krueger]

I've not seen a sign telling me to switch off my 6 kW stereo.