Category: John’s View

The answer is very simple “close to home” is where most people drive most of the

time. Therefore most crashes happen close to home.

One survey showed that nearly a third of crashes happen less than a mile from home. Crashing into a parked car was the most common type of collision within a mile of a driver’s home. In this survey just 5% of crashes occurred 26 to 50 miles from home, and 6% at distances of more than 50 miles away.

Of the crashes closest to home, the most common cause after hitting parked vehicles was crashing while driving out of a minor road, followed by reversing into a vehicle and by hitting a wall.

Another study show that only 1% of accidents occur more than 50 miles from home. Most people drive close to their home, which is why

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It always seemed like common sense to me for learner drivers to keep a record of their progress towards a full driving licence. I guess it was because when I started as an Instructor with BSM we were all encouraged to make a record of our pupils’ progress that the learner kept.

I’m no psychologist, although I have listened to a few over the years, but the theory that someone has to think about a learned behaviour in order for that learning to transfer from the short term memory to the long – and become learned – seems to me to make a lot of sense.

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Towards the end of last year I was invited along with a number of others, to take part in the traditional ‘look back, looking forward’ review of the year.

Full details of what those responding replied are in the January issue of Newslink due to be delivered to MSA members in the next few days.

These are the questions and my responses.

1) Do you think the Standards Check has been a success – and depending on your answer, why?

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DVSA recently announced that they were preparing the L-test to take a ‘real world’ route and that the route will, in part, be defined by Satellite Navigation (sat nav).

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Today I received an email from the Department of Transport concerning Transparency data on departmental spending in October 2014 covering the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Highways Agency, Maritime and Coastguard Agency and others. I never quite worked out who the others were.

I’m sure I have been sent this information in previous months but I guess I have never felt moved to investigate further before. I downloaded the file.

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Earlier today I was forwarded an email and I responded, I have edited some of this exchange to protect the identity of the sender: 

Good Afternoon

I wonder if you can help to point me in the right direction.

XXXXXXX have launched a new XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX and I believe it would be an ideal fit for your membership to promote to their pupils.   The product would add value to the services that your members provide.

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I recently had the opportunity to test drive, for a week, a car supplied by Autogas and modified to run on Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). The main purpose of the loan car was for me to get an idea of how driving with LPG was different when compared with petrol.

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