Been caught speeding in a Vauxhall combi - which speed limit applies?

I have received a notice of intended prosecution for a company vehicle I was driving. The vehicle is a Vauxhall Vivaro 2900 LWB combi. It has six seats; three in front and three in the rear, with a bulkhead...

I found the Speed Awareness Course well worth doing, and I left as a better driver.

In response to JC of Trowbridge, I sympathise with his frustration at middle lane motorway drivers. Having recently returned from driving in France and Spain I agree with Honest John that British driving...

I fully recommend speed awareness courses.

I was recently caught on camera doing 38mph in a 30mph limit area. The police authority offered me a speed awareness course at £90 with zero points or a £60 fine with three points on my licence. I chose...

Are cars stopped on the hard shoulder of a motorway at immediate risk?

A friend recently attended a Speed Awareness Course and said that they had been told the average time stopped on a motorway hard shoulder before being hit from behind is 25 minutes. Is this correct? If...

Do insurance companies increase premiums for drivers who have completed a speed awareness course?

In your reply to PJ you intimate that he would avoid any increase in his insurance premium by undertaking a speed awareness course. Is this in fact the situation as it appears, that PJ was in fact speeding...

Why do the police provide details of speeding motorists to private companies?

We know of the selling of vehicle keeper data by the DVLA to some interested parties such as parking enforcement companies. I did not know that the Police Authorities are now permitted to provide (outsource)...

Do you have to tell your insurer that you've attended a Speed Awareness Course?

After reading of ES of Newton Abbot’s speeding and subsequent Speed Awareness Course, I thought I would add my thoughts after attending a course earlier in the month (56mph in a 50mph). The course is run...

Excuse me please

I received a letter from Thames Valley Police Fixed Penalty Support Unit on 7th Sept 2011 to notify me that I was doing 36mph in a 30mph restriction on August 17th 2011. I wrote back to them to suggest...

Bascular problem

Having driven over Tower Bridge for many years, at all times of day and night and first being made aware of the 20 mph restriction (after first reading about it in your column I think?), I managed to forget...

Slipscream

Several weeks ago my daughter skidded into the side of a lorry on a bend. She had to be cut out of her car (which was a write off) by the Fire Service and was treated at the scene by paramedics before...