September 25, 2013
Unlicensed Driving Instructors Warning

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The Metropolitan Police are warning learner drivers to check that instructors are properly qualified before taking lessons. A suspected illegal instructor is, on average, reported to the Driving Standards Agency each day.

Vasim Choudhary, a DSA fraud investigator, states the importance of ensuring the instructors are properly qualified otherwise they are ‘someone who might just teach you skills which are very limited’. The police also concerned since these unlicensed driving instructors may not have been through the obligatory criminal background checks.

In the past four years, 123 suspected illegal instructors have been arrested, of whom 39 were convicted. However, it is often hard to secure convictions due to lack of proof that the learner has made payment. Therefore, it is imperative that learners check that their instructor is licensed before getting into the car.

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September 23, 2013
Elderly Drivers

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It has been found that more than 4 million people aged over 70 have full UK driving licences with 191 people a century old or more. The country’s oldest licensed driver is an 107-year-old woman.

Motorists over 70 must declare that they are fit to drive every three years without the need for a medical exam; calls have been made for a full medical examination by a doctor to be carried out before they are deemed fit to drive. Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation said ‘many motorists simply do not have a realistic view of their capabilities’.

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September 4, 2013
New Code of Practice for ADIs

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After months of consultation with ADIs and national associations, the DSA has published a new code of practice. Though it remains voluntary, ADI registrar Mark Magee is encouraging all ADIs to sign up to the code.

The code of practice deals with the personal conduct of an instructor, such as complying with the law and acting in a professional manner, as well as business dealings. Further, the code of practice also details terms on advertising and conciliation.

Magee has stated that there is no intention of making the code mandatory and that could only achieved by extending the regulatory framework. However, a number of industry campaigners have been calling for a compulsory code to give driver training greater professional credibility with members of the public.

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August 6, 2013
The Worst Driving Test Ever

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Everyone worries about their driving test; will I pass? Will I make a mistake? How many mistakes will I make?

However worried you are about your upcoming driving test, you can take solace in one thought.. There is always someone who has had a worse test than you.

Here is that person.

A video has recently gone viral of a dashboard camera capturing the moment a South Korean woman made herself infamous on the internet for what has to be the most spectacular, and most disastrous driving test of all time.

And the test lasted just seven seconds.

The woman, much to the fear and anger of her examiner, started the engine, and proceeded to move forward abruptly, inducing shouts of “Brake! Brake!” from her examiner, but all was too late. Her car mounted the curb, and as she made a feeble attempt to correct the positioning of the vehicle back onto the road, she instead forced the car into a dramatic tilt onto its right-hand side, causing the entire automobile to topple over onto its roof, shattering the windscreen.

Fortunately neither the pupil nor the examiner was injured in the incident. However, needless to say, she was not granted a driving license that day.

So next time you’re worrying about your driving test, or chastising yourself for a previous error, just remind yourself… it probably could have been much worse.

Safe driving from Britannia!

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