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instructor\u201d.<\/p>\nThis story somehow managed to spam the newsfeeds, coming in numerous times. The title of the piece laughingly trumpets that the source is an \u201cexpert instructor\u201d.<\/p>\n
To start with, there is no such thing as an \u201cexpert instructor\u201d, and those claiming to be such are guaranteed to be much further away from the imagined finishing line than they believe they are. In this case, our erstwhile \u201cexpert\u201d is merely the chairman of the local chapter of the Driving Instructors\u2019 Association (DIA). But let\u2019s take a look at what the story says \u2013 it\u2019s from those irritating This Is\u2026 local news websites who throw stories together using a food blender.<\/p>\n
The crux of the story is that this \u201cexpert\u201d reckons \u201cnewly qualified drivers must be kept from fast roads until they get enough experience under their belts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s just clarify again for our \u201cexpert\u201d the true statistics. The vast majority of accidents involving \u201cnew\u201d drivers tick the following boxes:<\/p>\n
Reading between the lines, you have lack of experience sitting on one side of the scales, and the belief that they know it all on the other \u2013 and the scales are heavily tipped to the latter position. Reading further into it, you also have the deplorable underlying attitude of many typical sub-24-year olds.<\/p>\n
Our \u201cexpert\u201d appears to be campaigning for learners to be allowed on motorways. I agree with that, but for totally different reasons. How does he think this is going to be applied to all<\/strong> learners? A huge number live nowhere near a motorway and couldn\u2019t possibly do lessons on one (at best, they might get on one once for a few miles). But he is quoted:<\/p>\n It\u2019s not necessarily that young people are speeding, it\u2019s that they may be going too fast for the road circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Quite. And they do that on rural or town roads<\/strong> \u2013 not on motorways, where bends are gentle and general visibility of the road ahead is usually good. That\u2019s why those statistics about accidents I gave above are so significant. What\u2019s more, the article is in This Is Gloucestershire \u2013 a county known for the number of rural<\/strong> roads within in \u2013 and is part of a campaign being run by that news source commemorating the number of young drivers killed on Gloucestershire\u2019s roads.<\/p>\n So the unworkable solution being suggested would have to involve keeping all new drivers off all except non-NSL (National Speed Limit) A roads.<\/p>\n On the other hand, of course, Gloucestershire’s appalling young driver accident record could<\/strong> just have something more\u00a0to do with the number of rural roads it has, and the attitudes of many of its drivers. And not the fact that they haven\u2019t been taken on motorways when they\u2019re taking driving lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This story somehow managed to spam the newsfeeds, coming in numerous times. The title of the piece laughingly trumpets that the source is an \u201cexpert instructor\u201d. To start with, there is no such thing as an \u201cexpert instructor\u201d, and those claiming to be such are guaranteed to be much further away from the imagined finishing […]<\/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":[80,86,81,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","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\/13932","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=13932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}