{"id":3251,"date":"2010-08-05T20:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2010-08-05T20:31:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:31:21","slug":"training-the-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Training The Supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a title=\"BBC Story - AA: Supervising Learners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-10834271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> story has been covered by much of the media<\/a> this week &#8211; in print, online, and on radio. It deals with the issues surrounding supervising learner drivers &#8211; e.g. when their parents or spouses\u00a0take them out.<\/p>\n<p>The AA is suggesting that supervising drivers are risking breaking the law &#8211; even jail &#8211; because they don&#8217;t know the rules. They surveyed around 19,000 people and the results show that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>around\u00a025% didn&#8217;t know you can&#8217;t use a mobile when supervising a learner<\/li>\n<li>around 10% didn&#8217;t know you mustn&#8217;t fall asleep<\/li>\n<li>some didn&#8217;t know that you mustn&#8217;t drink<\/li>\n<li>some didn&#8217;t know that you mustn&#8217;t send texts<\/li>\n<li>around\u00a015% didn&#8217;t know that you must wear glasses if you normally need them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report goes on to say that 4% of supervisors admitted to breaking at least one of these rules (or 22% if the supervisor was in the 21-24 age group).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The president of the AA, Edmund King, said the issue was highlighted by a case in which a person who was supposed to be supervising was over the drink-drive limit. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;This is where the legal point is quite serious because you are actually deemed to be in control of the car, even when you&#8217;re supervising. And in fact there has been a case where tragically the learner driver actually had a crash, two people died and the supervisor was actually deemed responsible and actually went to jail.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The AA has also launched a new course for parents and supervising drivers &#8211; it&#8217;s called <a title=\"AA: Supporting Learner Drivers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaa.com\/driving-school\/learn-to-drive\/helping-learner-drivers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Supporting Learner Drivers<\/a>. Obviously this media coverage is timed to coincide with and promote the course, but unless you&#8217;re one of the hardcore cynics who can&#8217;t see the wood for the leaves this doesn&#8217;t really make much difference. The BBC report continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Road safety charity Brake said it wanted to see the minimum age for accompanying drivers raised to at least 25. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Katie Shephard from the charity said: &#8220;It is vital that learner drivers gain suitable supervised experience behind the wheel, to ensure their safety and the safety of other road users. Accompanying drivers should also be registered as &#8216;approved accompanying drivers&#8217; by completing a questionnaire to prove their suitability, which could be checked by their insurer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>RoSPA has also echoed those sentiments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Duncan Vernon, road safety manager for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said there was &#8220;no doubt&#8221; those who supervised learner drivers would benefit from being given more information about how best to teach. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;All-round good practice should involve better co-ordination with approved driving instructors, as well-planned private practice can be invaluable,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not completely certain what the AA&#8217;s course involves, other than what&#8217;s on their website,\u00a0but I&#8217;ve been taking parents or husbands\/wives\u00a0out for years. It makes perfect sense &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing worse than teaching a new driver something only to have them come back a few weeks later with a load of bad habits (or ones that conflict with what I&#8217;ve been teaching them), and &#8220;my dad said&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, the fact that &#8220;dad&#8221; can meet you prevents an us and them situation developing behind the scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story has been covered by much of the media this week &#8211; in print, online, and on radio. It deals with the issues surrounding supervising learner drivers &#8211; e.g. when their parents or spouses\u00a0take them out. The AA is suggesting that supervising drivers are risking breaking the law &#8211; even jail &#8211; because they [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"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\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}