Pick and Mix.
A few quick snippets of motoring news relating to Learners.
Seen in Limerick today for the first time ever …perhaps it’s a world Exclusive. A learner driver’s car with two L Plates at the rear and one at the front. Makes a change from no plates or the ridiculous habit of cutting the white background off the plate making it nigh invisible.
The whole idea of displaying L Plates is to identify your self as a beginner so that other drivers can be ready for the mistakes that you will inevitably make and not expect you to do things that you haven’t yet learnt.
Yes we have all heard the stories that if you take your L Plates down you will get less harassment from other Drivers.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of pupils who turn up for pre-test lessons, usually far too late in the day to achieve a pass, who do not have L Plates up. We carry spare sets with us all the time and could write a book on the number of excuses given.
One of the many reasons why we have such a dismal Road Safety record here in Ireland is exemplified by the above disdain for Road rules and Regulations. So it seems that we are only going to improve our driving standards when we are forced to, by either losing licenses through Penalty Points offences or other fines.
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Spain is set to introduce an L Plate system but they will be Green and not Red. If they copy the “cut back your white backround” lobby they will be just as invisible. We did see one version of the green plate in Limerick a few weeks ago.
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Nigel Mansell, former Formula One World Champion spoke up in defence of Women joining the ranks of Racing Drivers following Jenson Button’s remarks earlier today that were quite offensive and inappropriate.
Racing should be confined to the track; a point that is lost on many young drivers on the road today. If there is a Racing Team out there looking for Female Drivers, Limerick is the place to start because we have quite an exceptional crop in the current season...
Sadly, we have noticed just as many mad and incompetent Young Female drivers as we have Young Males on the roads here in the Mid West .There is no difference between them .All the usual suspects…no seat belts; untethered children; mobile phone in one hand and turning a corner with the other; cutting corners, and magnetic tailgating are just some of the habits .Of course these habits are exhibited by a good proportion of Adult Drivers as a matter of pride!
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