However, the on road training while on the whole very good, had a major flaw. Had I been photographed at 79mph on the same piece of road the brown envelope would simply never have arrived. I've only ever had one endorsement back in 1982, and I can't work without a car. Your email address will not be published. Anyway, fair cop, I was doing 47 in a 40 zone, but was offered – as an alternative to a fine and points – a speed awareness course. Currently, we are unable to deliver face-to-face courses. A couple of months earlier I’d been photographed by a mobile speed camera at 81mph on a dual carriageway, which put me precisely two miles per hour into the red. Speed awareness courses will be held via online video chat app Zoom during coronavirus lockdown. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Cost: £84. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * Website. Online digital classroom course – National Speed Awareness What will happen to my currently booked National Speed Awareness Course? Was it worth it? However, we will shortly be inviting you to participate in our newly-developed, online Digital Classroom Course, iNSAC. But then as the course went on, it began to make sense – because most of the people in the room that day were, for some odd reason, drivers who rarely venture out of town. Police referred courses. Mate of mine did one last Friday. Thank you for the reply so far, which is helpful.The subject of speed awareness courses is an item of general public interest. I went of Bike Safe the free Police training day a few years back (it's not a speeding penalty course). But the best thing about it was being able to look inside the homes of seven other people. Despite this and the fact that I learnt nothing on the course I'm now even more boring than ever behind the wheel. Last week I was on the autobahn watching muppets tailgating at 120 mph +, and I was happy at 80 mph (without too many flies splatted on my windscreen). On top of that, there are set speeds that qualify for a speed awareness course; if you were speeding by more than these amounts, you won’t have the option to attend a course. Which the local police authorities aren’t entirely chuffed about. Then there was Christine who had her lighting so low she was almost a silhouette – like she was being interviewed on a news channel about a sensitive topic and didn’t want her identity revealed. TTC, which runs them for UK Road Offender Education, is now offering remote options. To begin with I found that quite surprising. Cost: £84. A speed awareness course on Zoom! your friend obviously got booked twice with more than 3 years between each offense. At 81mph I won the award for highest speed in the room (there were between 30-35 other people there) but in this case I didn’t win a prize – because most other people had been done at 30-something. Course Costs – iNSAC – National Speed Awareness Course – Virtual. Those than run the speed awareness courses may say that you don't need to tell your insurer. Last Saturday, when the rest of you were enjoying a rare burst of early springtime sunshine, I was tucked up inside a training room at our local sports hall, consuming the medicine that is a speed awareness course. So how about not speeding in the first place, in other words. The strange thing is I'm enjoying my driving even more. Speed awareness for the cynical Lead-footed Franca Davenport submits to a speed awareness course as part of her penalty and finds that it pays to obey the legal limit. You couldn't make it up | Steve Canavan I have made one car journey in the past three months, to my dear mother’s on her birthday, to … Our interim office opening times are now Mon-Fri 08:30-17:00 Sat 08:45-14:00 . The scheme is operated on behalf of the police service who outline the type of offender and the offences. Whilst a speed awareness course will come out at near enough the same price as the fixed penalty for your speeding offence, it’s still a better option to take. The four-hour long course is designed to educate motorists about the life-threatening risks they pose to themselves and other road users when breaking the speed limit. Not a chance, and even demonstrated how foolish is was by almost getting clipped himself while we were out later. Close Alert. To learn more about how we use the information you provide to us please see our. I'm arriving at my destinations far more relaxed, and not a lot later. Speeding awareness courses are offered to drivers by UK police forces as an alternative to prosecution, fines and as a way of drivers avoiding points on their licence. This was appealing because I was keen to learn about the dangers of driving and to brush up on the laws of the road – oh, and it was only 80 quid and no points. And I guess the key thought I came away with was; don’t get caught again – because next time, for the next three years at any rate, it’ll be a prosecution, not a speed awareness course. Which was weird. NDORS offer a range of courses one of which is the National Speed Awareness Course – NSAC which are designed to cover most low level moving traffic offences. And so for the next four hours I had to sit there, listening to what would presumably be some startling new facts about speeding. A Speed Awareness Course can be attended in any force area where the National Offender Retraining Scheme has been adopted, irrespective of where the offence occurs. When warned people can be expelled from the course, the woman hurriedly moved to a different part of her house. if you read the article properly, it says there is a 3 year limit. – I have to admit my eyes glazed over. And I began to crave the moment when it would all be over and I could go home. The digital course will be reviewed after 12 weeks. It’s a bit odd calling it a zoom speed awareness course but guessing that jokes been done already! It will be delivered via a secure video link. I'm not sure they'd need you if you couldn't drive. North East England Durham: TTC (0845 2704363). Stupid course leaders tried to tell us that you lose half your speed in the last 5 metres of braking. We were each asked how fast we’d been going. But anyway, that was then, and this was now. Speed Awareness Course. Home. During the current period of COVID-19 ‘lockdown’, NDORS courses are available online – Speed Awareness, the Motorway Course, and What’s Driving Us?. TTC Group is pleased to confirm that, from Monday 6th April 2020, it will be delivering digital classroom-based National Speed Awareness Course (iNSAC) to members of the public who have already booked a place to attend a face-to-face course.. All face-to-face driver awareness courses were suspended on the 19th March 2020 as a result of guidance from UKROEd. It looks stupid.’, ‘Happy birthday mum,’ I replied, ‘I’m glad I drove 50 miles to spend it with you.’. But it’s probably a good idea to let them know about it, at least when you get your car insurance renewal notice. And most of them didn’t know too much about driving, or speed limits, or what happens to a car if and when things start to go wrong. If I were to befall a terrible accident and, say, lose three limbs, I get the feeling if my mum were told about it between 3pm and 4.30pm, she’d say, ‘that’s awful but can I get back to you in half an hour – I’m just making my opening bid’. Drink Drive Rehabilitation Scheme courses are also delivered online. Would the policeman agree? 100% loved the 4 hour course after being caught speeding some months ago by mobile speed camera. Bickering aside, we had a pleasant socially-distanced few hours before we were ordered to leave because my mother had online bridge with Mary and Paul and nothing comes between my mother and bridge. Northumbria: AA DriveTech (0845 3459623). All of those on the course passed and we were asked at the end whether we had enjoyed the online experience. It means that you avoid receiving 3 points on your driving licence and a speeding conviction on your driving record—factors that would undoubtedly increase your insurance premiums. We will use your information to ensure you receive messages that are relevant to you. Do us a favour slow down, and keep up your excellent reports in Autocar. Cost: £80. People who like and care about their driving are invariably the sort of drivers who might a) bend the speed limit a touch from time to time but also b) pay far more attention to what they’re doing behind the wheel than the average Joseph Soap. While the TTC, a large provider of speed awareness courses, states that 99% of people who attend their course go away with a more positive attitude … To begin with the man taking the course seemed quite jovial. 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It was also annoying as this had occurred on literally the only journey I made during lockdown. But then, hey, I swerved the three points on my licence, paid just £85 for the course whereas the fine would have been £100, and learned that insurance companies owned by Admiral will try to charge you more just for taking the course. Some insurance companies may raise your premium as a result, but not all of them do. technically, in 30 years of driving, you can attend the course 10 times before getting points. I Would be happy to go back again if i got caught speeding again. I debated that on narrower country roads with blind corners that this was not a good idea in case a car coming the other way cut the corner. And that’s the piece of advice I know I’ll find hardest to adhere to on a quiet, dry, empty, straight piece of road, at half six in the morning, and on a well-lit summer’s day. You can have 3 pints or you can do the speed awareness course You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe mechanism on any email you receive from us. This workshop is designed to enhance driving skills, improve speed awareness and promote a road safety culture among your driving community. Cleveland: Hartlepool Borough Council (01429 523803). A bloke called Martin was in his office where, in the background through a window, groups of men in yellow uniform and hardhats passed by and you’d hear a shout of, ‘you’ve put bloody sugar in my brew again, how many times do I have to tell you I’ve bloody well quit’. There were, however, some quite smart people present, too; people who clearly like their driving. Fareham mum's plea to hit-and-run driver who 'could have killed her son' to hand themselves in, 29 celebrities who you might not know called Portsmouth home at one time or another, Her words on my arrival were: ‘Oh Steven, are you not going to do something about that scraggly mess on your chin? Speed Awareness Course; Speed Awareness Course Eligibility; Speed Awareness Course FAQ; Speed Awareness Locations; Speed Awareness Locations . Speed awareness courses have been postponed for an initial period of 12 weeks from 20 March 2020. Haymarket Media Group, publishers of Autocar takes your privacy seriously. There is no formal written test but drivers are expected to have a positive attitude and participate. The cost of completing a speed awareness course varies by region but is typically priced between £90 and £100. So it doesn’t matter where you live… you can choose your course from any course provider that provides the course. As a high mileage business driver I've caned my cars for years, and apart from one smash when I was 18 I've never had more than the odd parking scrape, or smashed rear end when I was stationary and someone was playing with their phone, or just not looking where they were going. I confirm that I have read and accept the moderation policy and house rules relating to comments posted on this website. National Speed Awareness Course: impact evaluation Assesses the effects of the National Speed Awareness Course on the subsequent re-offending of participants. This was a blow because I’m not a rich man. Menu and widgets. But when lecturer number two took the floor and began telling us about how we should all be driving as economically as we can in towns nowadays – with our air conditioning systems switched off and our windows down so that we save fuel, and by turning the engine off at junctions so that we save fuel, but ideally in third gear, not fourth, so that we don’t accidentally break the speed limit (but in the process burning a whole heap MORE fuel than we otherwise might; genius!) There is NO requirement to travel to a venue. Speed awareness courses will be held via online video chat app Zoom during coronavirus lockdown. Full Member . Posted 6 months ago. So, this I see as just another training day. Drivers will be contacted by the relevant police force. Amid the Coronavirus lockdown, all class-based courses were put on hold to comply with social distancing measures, however, drivers will now be able to take their pre-booked classroom courses online. photographed by a mobile speed camera at 81mph on a dual carriageway, Mercedes-Benz GLC 300e 4Matic 2021 UK review, Vauxhall Crossland 1.2 Turbo 130 2021 UK review, Xpeng P7 Super Long Range Premium 2021 review. To find a course, and to book your place online, you need to go to this web page: https://offer.ndors.org.uk. It was quite useful. Despite some quite good stuff about observation (which to be fair I kind of knew about anyway) it was a fairly tedious experience overall. All NDORS course providers operate under a licence granted by our operating company UKROEd Ltd. Once a licence has been granted, it opens opportunities for the licencee to tender for contracts issued by Police Forces. The course gives drivers and riders essential advice to help them change their on-road behaviour and reduce reoffending. Throughout my driving career I have undertaken many driver training courses and over the past 30 years have attended driver awareness, hazard perception, driving at speed, race training and skid training days, bad weather driving courses and many more. One speeder reckoned: “I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the course was being run via Zoom. ©JPIMedia Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. I never knew that any road with street lights has a 30mph limit unless otherwise stated, and the difference in the number of fatalities among people hit by a car at 30 and at 50 is genuinely shocking. So, earlier this week I had to log on to something called Zoom (which I’d hoped might be a lolly but was an app) and spend two-and-a-half hours with a jolly but slightly threatening chap who talked to me and seven others about the laws of the road. Most of the day was really good - advice on bike maintenance, a good first aid course relating to bikers (removing helmets, etc), and worthwhile on road demonstrations and discussions. Steve, like many readers I admire you for your skill behind the wheel, and years of great reporting. So what’s it like to go on a speed awareness course? My thoughts on a recent speed awareness course I had to attend We were encouraged at all times to maximise visibility around corners by positioning the bike near the centre line for left hand corners, which is normally of course a very good idea. There was Carole, who in her kitchen had a cage that contained a dog about the size of an elephant and which, at intervals, went berserk and began barking and clawing at the bars as if eager to eat her. These were folk like me who had been caught speeding but whereas my camera was set up so the background was the bedroom wall, others had their cameras in much more interesting positions. Anyroad, as the course went on we were told about how we needed to view the road as if on high beam, not dipped beam, and about how when a car brakes it loses the vast majority of its speed in the last few metres of its travel, not the first few; and about how dreadful it is that us drivers don’t do any training once we’ve passed our test – all of which was fair game I suppose and actually quite interesting if I’m honest. And I guess the key thought I came away with was; don’t get caught again – because next time, for the next three years at any rate, it’ll be a prosecution, not a speed awareness course. My morning session was for allegedly doing 46 mph in a 40 mph, and I honestly don't think I was over the limit as I was driving with extreme caution. Comments. They also couldn't grasp the concept that I was speeding intentionally, they'd obviously heard "I was keeping up with traffic, and didn't notice my speedo" too many times. I have No problems with this course and the two instructors Gillian & Ash who made the course even more enjoyable & go quicker. Comment on this story. The National Speed Awareness Course (NSAC) is designed to cover low-end speeding offences detected by automatic camera devices and police officers. when challenged, they insisted that it was true, even if stopping from 120mph. Having been caught at 81mph, Sutters has taken his medicine and done the course. I am writing to request an internal review of South Yorkshire Police's handling of my FOI request 'Speed Awareness Courses'. IMPORTANT UPDATE: Police referred driver courses: Speed Awareness, Motorway Awareness & What's Driving Us?, are delivered as online digital classroom courses until further notice. Details of the course providers can be found here. I too have been a passionate driver for 39 years, but as Bob Dylan said "The times they are a changing", and we need to change too. I'm loving the fact that I now look to see how high an mpg I can can get from my BMW, rather than seeing how quickly I can go. Areas explored include traffic rules and regulations, the causes and consequences of inappropriate speed and identifying the correct limit on any given road. neila. Are you as passionate about cars as we are? Opinion: Nascar's lions ready to Roar before the 24. Speed awareness courses aren’t universally popular with drivers, with many considering them to be just another tax in disguise or simply a waste … After watching the Nurburgring WEC 6 Hour race I had no inclination to "do the ring" but enjoyed a relaxed drive back on B roads. Exclusive . A couple of weeks later I received a pleasant letter from the police telling me I had been caught speeding and would be fined £100 and three points put on my licence. But to the lecturers – there were two of them – this didn’t seem to matter one iota. 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