Speed awareness course – what to expect?

The only thing I can remember about the course is that we were told that the cameras don’t detect up to +10% of the speed limit, so I tend to go a bit faster now…

slight insurance hit.

You ought to get some quotes. It can be a bit more than “slight”. You have to declare it for five years. It sits on your license for three (or is it four). Some rental car companies will not rent you a car with points. It nearly always makes financial sense to do the course.

You ought to get some quotes

I already have, thanks. The increased insurance cost over 5 years is less than I got paid for a day’s work, and I’m far from highly paid. Maybe they take into account the fact I’ve not had an accident in 10 years, and those I have had weren’t speeding related?

You ought to get some quotes. It can be a bit more than “slight”. You have to declare it for five years. It sits on your license for three (or is it four). Some rental car companies will not rent you a car with points. It nearly always makes financial sense to do the course.

Just got my renewal.
Phoned them up to tell them about Mrs Higgo’s SP30.
They added £18.

Fair enough 🙂

It made economic sense to me, also claim free since I’ve had insurance. It’s also made it for other people I know. I’d just rather not have the points on the license, cheers.

aracer – Member
they’d have had a damn hard job explaining to me why doing 57mph in a rural 50 limit which used to be a 70 limit and hasn’t actually had any accidents on that particular bit (even when it was a 70) is unsafe.

Was it a dual carriage way?

Its seriously painful. Its a bit like after school detention.
They kept us there the whole 4 hours.
There was the usual know it all dickhead up the front too who kept interjecting and dragging the whole process out.
If he knew so much he wouldn’t have been there in the first place.
I did learn a few things but I could have learnt those in about 5 minutes rather than 4 hours.
The most useful bit was finding out how to know the speed limit on any road.
Other than that I found it a whole lot of preeching and scare mongery.

Was it a dual carriage way?

I think you need to do a speed awareness course 😉

Well that was it. Punishment enough for driving like a tool.
2 trainers, 1 was good, one was a patronising numpty.
4 hours of it is stretching the point somewhat.

Time to fill in the feedback section 🙂

Oh joy sounds like fun, can I take a book with me this morning?

2 trainers, 1 was good, one was a patronising numpty.

🙂

On both courses I did, this was also the case. It’s like it’s set up that way.

Oh joy sounds like fun, can I take a book with me this morning?

Hehe…just keep an open mind. It won’t be that bad. 😉

Okay mind fully open, (hell I post on here don’t I??) let’s go let the fun and games begin…

Take your smartphone and stay on here for a few hours..