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• Effect of having insurance cancelled 15 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  What Mark (RLBS) says about having difficulty in this situation is certainly true. It is unfortunate as the cancellation wasn't her fault. A popular scam with young people is to only put themselves as named drivers. My sister rightly didn't want to do this and has always had her own policy. Another scam is to put a low-risk parents address when keeping the car in a high-risk area.
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  Bumping up the premiums 19 Dec 2009 (Ask HJ)
  There has been a lot of airtime spent on the subject of large rises being imposed by the insurance industry on UK car owners. All the usual excuses have...
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  Labouring the points 30 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
  With hundreds of thousands miles behind me, happily accident-free, I reckon I generally know when I am driving at a safe speed for the conditions and,...
• Hideous Insurance Renewal problem 7 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  and would not listen to my argument that this was not actually choice since the first was based on an erroneous belief that au pairs are employees which drove the premium to an unrealistic rate or the second where I get the money back but will face hideous problems on renewal of trying to insure a young driver with a record of insurance refused. I have spoken to the insurer?s customer complaints department who tell me that they have voided the original policy and they are investigating. I have asked them to make it clear to me that they have taken this decision of their own volition.
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  The dealer is refusing to accept my rejection of a faulty car - what do I do? 24 Sep 2017 (Ask HJ)
  I brought a Skoda Yeti from a Skoda main dealer four months ago for £7000. I've been on maternity leave and only drove the car small journeys (only done...
• Road rage - moi? 8 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  I was reminiscing with a friend over the old Aussie Shiraz, as you do, and began telling her of the time that one of my then young teen-age daughters had to appear in court. My husband, myself and our two youngest daughters (both young teen-agers) were living in Arcadia in Los Angeles 20-some years ago at the time. One evening we attended a football match (boring, boring, boring) between their school Arcadia High and Pasadena High.
• Pensioner Leads Police On 27 Mile Chase At 10mph 9 Oct 2011 (Forum)
  Rafael Pigott mitigating, said: "Police erred on the side of caution because of an elderly driver knocking over a young girl in the town centre recently." Barry Wheatcroft, chairman of the bench, disqualified Turner from driving for 12 months, fined £100 and ordered to pay £100 costs.
• Positive (only) aspects of UK motoring 16 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  I regularly see a Gent I knew around 10yrs ago. At that time he was driving a Landcruiser and was fit, young looking - and a decade younger than me. Now, I see him moving along the outer ring road, heading in towards the City - he`s wearing an all enveloping cape that covers him from the neck down - and the working parts of his powered wheelchair - just leaving the wheels exposed.
• Byers questions Final part (hopefully) 2 May 2002 (Forum)
  Education There is considerable concern among the electorate that the Government favours a policy of legislation and punishment for drivers, and benefits from the income fines from initiatives like speed cameras provide. This approach appears to ignore the benefits of driver education to improve standards, which would have much greater and lasting benefits.
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  Why were Skoda Assist so unhelpful when our Octavia broke down in France? 10 Jun 2012 (Ask HJ)
  Please could you inform your readers of an experience we had in May of this year when travelling in France with our 2-year-old Skoda Octavia 1.4TSI. About...
• Red Traffic Light Camera Offence 29 Sep 2005 (Forum)
  Unfortunately, a few months ago, my young Niece was caught by a Red Traffic Light Camera going through a red light. Apparently the time of the photograph is six seconds after the lights turned to Red. She is 20 years old. I myself just expected nothing to happen, if, hopefully, the camera didn't have any film left, or she would receive the usual NIP with the offer of a fixed penalty 3 points plus a 3 point licence endorsement.
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  Should I accept a free service from Skoda after Skoda Assist left us stranded in France? 9 Jan 2012 (Ask HJ)
  On holiday in France, my Skoda Superb TDI 170 DSG Elegance Estate kept going into 'safe' mode. This meant that the car would not drive at more than 80kmh...
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  Painting by numptys 23 May 2009 (Ask HJ)
  This must be one that deserves as much publicity as Direct Line’s claim to let named drivers build up their own no claims. Last summer we sold my son’s...
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  Dog hit determination 11 Jul 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I wonder if you can help me. On 13th May, a black labrador dog suddenly leapt in front of my car, to chase another dog on the opposite side of the road...
• And todays lesson in road safety... 13 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  I estimate the oncoming car that Tboned him (mk3 Golf) was doing around 30mph or less as it had just rounded a tight bend. The driver of the car who crashed was a young lad, late teens or possibly early 20s. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt either. He extracted himself from the car (passenger side) within a few minutes and was able to walk about fine etc-he really did walk away, unless he had internal injuries.
• Turning slowly into side streets 18 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  The cars are also parked very close to the junction blocking the view until you are well into the junction, and cars absolutely belt down the road (loads of young lads in cars doing well over the limit). Now, the cars behind me *should* be leaving room for them to stop safely if they can't get past me, but the reality is that they drive close and fast. My thoughts are that I need to be that slow to be able to turn into the side street without crossing the middle line and to check that the street is clear.
• Have I got a chance? 26 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  Just as I went to turn right, I was hit by the car whose lane I was stationary in. The young girl who hit me was quite hysterical and didn't say anything once I'd made sure she was okay. The police turned up about 5 mins later. They said they could see what had happened but they would have to put down in their report that I was at fault because I was blocking the oncoming vehicle's lane.
• letter from the colonies vol 14 18 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  At the gate a vendor sells little plastic wallets for your licence. A red one for truck, bus and taxi drivers marked "Professional Driver" and a green one for the hoi-polloi marked "Unprofessional Driver". I buy William a green one; he is not amused. The next stage of all this is the practical test. This is administered only when a licensed instructor says the pupil is ready and has had sufficient lessons to reach the necessary level of skill.
• Protection from rear impacts 13 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  s head must be practically brushing the rear screen. I was reminded of that traffic-cops type TV programme on several months back where a young woman (the driver) had tragically been killed when her car (was it a Peugeot 206?) became sandwiched between a truck and an Audi estate. The truck was big-ish but not an HGV, and it turned out its driver had been fiddling with a cellphone, and realised so little of events that he thought he?
• Ask Byers Part 2 28 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  Whole heap of stuff on education which distils down to strong feelings that Despite the current driving test being harder than ever before, judging by the accident rates in young drivers, it is still not enough and does not tackle the problem of drivers who have not passed a test in many years. Furthermore there is almost no education provision for other road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders.