The gang I run of retired and semi-retired GPs met yesterday and we had an informal talk from Gerry and Richard from the Institute of advanced drivers based in Wakefield. It really grabbed all of our attention and their style of teaching was great. Gerry goes to the same Italian class as us and is a retired policeman. Richard is the chairman of the IAM. I am definitely going to go on the January course and am driving differently today because of what they told us. It was the best session the group had experienced since we started meeting 2 years ago. They brought along Highway Codes from the year each passed their test as well as one from 1954 that cost 1d. I think doing the course will help me driving abroad.
http://www.wakefieldiam.org.uk/
I cant write here everything we were told but I was interested in how one tells one is in a 30, 40 or 50 mph limit. I suppose I was particularly interested because I had obtained 3 points on my licence for driving at 37 mph after I had set the speed limiter to 40 in my car. I wrongly assumed it was a 40 limit when in fact it was a 30. Why was I setting my limiter? Because I had been given another 3 points one year before that for driving at 34 on a dual carriageway going out of Wakefield. 40 and 50 etc MPH limited areas have reminders on lampposts etc (unless stolen). There are no reminders in a 30 mph limited area.
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