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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
...If you take the course you aren't done for speeding so you save on insurance( I think it cost me an extra £30-£40 year) so overall it's the better, cheaper option.
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I hadn't thought of that! I was going to advise Less to take the points and the fixed penalty, which is the route I wish I'd taken. The course costs more than the points and the half day off just adds to the misery. I can now see how (in the long run) it's probably cheaper to take the course.
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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
However, I believe they treat you like a very naughty, very small child-amongst other things you have to stand up and confess your wickedness and sins to the group and tell them how you have learnt to repent.
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Not my experience of the course that runs in Leyland - The only pretentious bit is in the classroom where they stress that they don't use the word "accident" because only a tiny fraction of incidents are true accidents. If the root cause of an incident is alcohol, or excessive speed, or distraction, or tiredness, or whatever - it's avoidable, so it's no longer an accident but a crash. They give you a bunch of statistics, they show a few slides of vehicle carnage.
In the car, "offenders" are paired up and given a refresher that's similar to current lesson/test. Let's face it, they can't spend three or four hours asking, "What is the speed limit here, and what speed do you think you're doing?" They also ask you on a three or four minute run to talk continuously describing the potential hazards and how you're preparing for the possibility that they become a hazard.