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series of explosions\u201d and \u201csmoke from a shredding machine\u201d caused an examiner to experience an asthma attack.<\/p>\nApparently, the Reservoir Road Test Centre in Hull has been closed on Health & Safety grounds after a neighbouring factory apparently experienced \u201ca series of explosions\u201d and \u201csmoke from a shredding machine\u201d caused an examiner to experience an asthma attack.<\/p>\n
The article is in one of those \u201cThis is\u2026\u201d local publications and the emotive headline and reference to \u201cexplosions\u201d is pretty vague. Even when they quote the owner of the factory where these explosions are taking place you\u2019re still not much wiser. However, the owner explains that explosions occur inside a machine used for crushing cars a couple of times a week and are no hazard to anyone \u2013 which is at odds with the story\u2019s initial reference to \u201cshock waves\u201d shaking the test centre and setting vertical blinds swinging.<\/p>\n
Anyway, let\u2019s leave the issue of alleged nuclear explosions in\u00a0 a breaker\u2019s yard next door to the Hull test centre and look at the various responses to the temporary closure.<\/p>\n
The story is dated today \u2013 the 11th \u2013 and yet tests appear to be going ahead until 23rd (so the whole issue can\u2019t be that serious), after which time they will be run out of Beverley and Bridlington. Beverley is a 24 minute drive away from Hull, whilst Bridlington is 50 minutes away. Even Scunthorpe is only a 40 minute drive.<\/p>\n
I ought to point out that I often take pupils who live in Long Eaton, for example, to tests in Colwick \u2013 a 25 minute drive at best, and often 40 minutes or more depending on the route I take. I carry out manoeuvres at various locations along whatever route we\u2019re using, and that pushes the total travel time to anything up to 90 minutes \u2013 the warm-up time I include prior to test for all pupils..<\/p>\n
One instructor reckons that pupils will now need two hour lessons because they will need experience of the roads they\u2019ll be taking their tests on. He asks if they will be able to afford that. Well, the simple answer is yes, because all you do is let them miss a week and then do a two hour lesson the following week. I do that all the time with those who are strapped for cash. And he refers to a \u201chuge fireball\u201d erupting from the machine in the breaker\u2019s yard \u2013 the BBC version of the story is somewhat less dramatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n A DSA spokeswoman says:<\/p>\n \u2026there is more to a test than learning test routes and it is expected that any candidate who considers themselves to be ready for test should be able to drive in any area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That was exactly what I was thinking. Fair enough, there are certain features that it is useful to cover on lessons around any test centre, but you don\u2019t spend all lesson, every lesson just covering test routes, test roads, test corners, and so on. Unfortunately, some ADIs do just that.<\/p>\n Another instructor thinks that Beverley will be \u201cswamped by learners\u201d and she adds:<\/p>\n They already have to put up with the Leconfield lorries going through their town.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The point she\u2019s trying to make here escapes me. I\u2019m not sure what lorries have to do with it, but I would very much doubt that even if every Hull examiner moved to Beverley and conducted all the planned Hull tests that there would be a significant increase in traffic. It would amount to a few dozen extra cars spread out over a whole day.<\/p>\n I wish people wouldn\u2019t try to dramatise things so much.<\/p>\n Edit 10\/10\/2013:<\/strong> The latest news is that a temporary centre could open shortly – less than a month after the original office was shut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently, the Reservoir Road Test Centre in Hull has been closed on Health & Safety grounds after a neighbouring factory apparently experienced \u201ca series of explosions\u201d and \u201csmoke from a shredding machine\u201d caused an examiner to experience an asthma attack. The article is in one of those \u201cThis is\u2026\u201d local publications and the emotive headline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving-test-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}