Re: New Drivers.
Well yes AccyJay. If a driver is banned, whether it be for accumulating 12 points or an instant ban, they should be required to retake the test. If someone does not heed the warning as they go about accumulating points then that’s just too bad.
Knowing that 12 points doesn’t only mean a ban but a retake of the test would surely concentrate the mind to be more careful on the road. No more dashing through the lights as they change to red. No more exceeding the speed limit.
Would anyone relish having to take the test again? I wouldn’t! So I make sure that I won’t be asked to take the test again by obeying the rules of the road.
The fact that you got done for speeding on the open road/motorway doesn’t come into the equation. The traffic laws were broken. There are no mitigating circumstances as far as speed limits are concerned although getting a wife in labour to the hospital or similar emergency has been a mitigating circumstance. But those types of occasions are rare.
I accept that there will be newly passed drivers who think that they know it all and put their foot down Neil and I also accept that a newly passed driver could be nervous but I think that is the exception rather than the rule.
As a small aside – if someone takes lessons at one hour per week for 26 weeks then they are wasting their money. They should compress the lessons to one a day for 26 days. It is all too easy to forget what was learned in last week’s lesson but not so easy in yesterday’s lesson.
When I took driving lessons back in the last millennium (1968) I had one heck of a job to persuade BSM to give me 12 lessons on a daily basis. They wanted me to take one a week. Probably knowing that with such a schedule I would need more than 12 lessons and therefore more money for them. Actually that was the second time that I passed my test. The first time was in 1957 but I let my license expire and did not renew it during the following 3 years because I was abroad playing at sailors.
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