Speed Awareness Curse

Like your recent correspondent I too have been offered a Speed Awareness course for doing 38mph on a recently reduced speed section of dual carriageway. The offer has been made by our euphemistically named Casualty Reduction Enforcement Support Team. Unlike him I am not paying £60 or even £90 but an eyewatering £110. I've concluded C.R.E.S.T is really Car Revenue Extortion Scheme Team.

Asked on 11 April 2009 by

Answered by Honest John

I think the Speed Awareness assertion that at the point a car travelling at 30mph would have stopped, one travelling at 35mph would still be doing 21mph needs to be tested. MB Brooklands is the perfect facility to conduct such a test and I’m trying to set this up

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