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I'm a motorcyclist who likes to make eye contact with drivers waiting at junctions to ensure that I've been seen. However, lots of front side windows are (illegally) heavily tinted. You recently described...
Your correspondent FM asked what is the best driving technique to use with Honda's i-Shift. In my experience with a Jazz, bought last November to replace a Jazz CVT-7, there is no best way. This electronic...
As promised, my experience with the IAM Drive Check 55 you recommended me to take. I received a letter within a couple of days of booking, selected a local branch and e-mailed them. It took a few days...
I have fallen foul of one of Croydon's many enforcement cameras. It is alleged that I “stopped on a restricted bus stop / stand”. The bus stop has a single wide yellow line. I did stop to set down a passenger...
My son has just turned sixteen and I have offered him car driving lessons for a birthday present. He is a pretty good 'back seat' driver, but I would like him to get some safe but realistic experience...
I am approaching 70, still alert, etc., but I would like to find an easy way to have an independent assessment of my driving. I want to find out if my driving style is safe and sensible, rather than if...
In our local area, Walton upon Thames, drivers are now regularly prosecuted for parking on the zig zag lines either side of the crossing in the High Street. This is done by CCTV: you get a picture of your...
A delivery driver who works next door to me, told of an incident about two weeks ago. He was driving his car to work in South London when he was stopped at a Police ANPR checkpoint and asked for his driving...
While my car was parked on my drive it was hit by a young driver who it seems fell asleep at the wheel. The police were called, and after testing that he had not been drinking are happy to let the insurance...
I must report to you an alarming trend that I have noticed over the last two years. When we have a police incident, they shut the road down for anything up to two days. Last week I was going home to Shere,...