Intensive Driving Course in Peterborough or Grantham
I am about to tell you about one driving action you could do that
will prevent you from getting a speeding ticket. Not possible?
Trust me, this works... read on.
The following PREVENTS you from getting a speeding ticket.
Receiving a speeding ticket is a sign that you are not
driving to the conditions. I expand on
that theme in this short video. Now if
you accept that as a fact, then how can you adapt your driving techniques to
prevent yourself from getting another ticket?
Well the good news is I have one such technique that I am
about to impart, that is a really ‘good driving habit’ – I hope you’ve heard that
phrase quite a bit just lately! And I
really do know this works, I’ve not received a speeding ticket in literally
decades!
The technique centres around the identification of a
potential or actual hazard. Remember, a
hazard is anything that makes you slow down, speed up or change direction.
Once you spot a potential hazard (or actual), check your
mirrors, then check your speedo. Let me
explain why you are doing those checks.
Before you slow, speed up or change direction, you need to
make sure that the action you are about to do is going to be safe. And that will at the very least mean checking
your central and/or side mirrors to see who might be affected around you. That observation COULD save someone’s life.
The reason you check your speedometer is because you need to
assess what is the correct speed to be at in order to safely and legally
negotiate the hazard. And part of that
assessment will raise the question of what the speed limit is. You must ask yourself what the speed limit
is.
Let’s look at 2 examples to test
this method:
TEST 1: You are on a
dual carriageway with 2 lanes in each direction, with a max speed limit of
40mph. You are in Lane 1 (the left most
lane) doing 40mph and up ahead you see a bus signalling right as it begins to
pull out of a bus stop into your lane.
THIS IS A HAZARD – it is going to make you do at least one of the
following: slow down, speed up or change direction. So, check the relevant mirrors BEFORE you
act. Now, check your speedo. Remember that speedo check is not only
forcing you to acknowledge the speed you are doing, which is 40, but also it
raises the questions of what is a good speed to negotiate the hazard, and exactly what is the speed limit here... which is also 40. That information will now affect how you go
about dealing with this hazard... it makes it safe and it makes it legal.
TEST 2: You are on a
single carriageway in a National Speed Limit zone of maximum 60mph, and you are
doing 50mph. You see up ahead a slow
moving tractor which is on a farm track to the left but heading towards your
road. THIS IS A POTENTIAL HAZARD – it may make you
slow down, speed up or change direction.
You check the relevant mirrors and see a motorbike approaching from
behind gaining on you. You check your
speedo, see you are doing 50mph and realise that you in a road with a max speed
limit of 60mph. That information will
now affect how you go about dealing with this potential hazard... it makes it
safe and it makes it legal.
Remember this is a ‘good driving habit’ and like all
attempts at forming habits it requires discipline to constantly apply the
technique. But I can tell you now, it
DOES work, and if you apply it to your driving it will make speeding tickets a
thing of the past.
Now was that worth reading about?
Try this out TOMORROW, and text me your conclusion on 07894
262 718, say either “GOOD” if this works for you, or “BAD” if not. But do give it a go... I look forward to
hearing from you!
www.BIGTOM.org.uk
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