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• Effect of having insurance cancelled 15 Mar 2003 (Forum)
  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
• Hideous Insurance Renewal problem 7 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  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
• 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
• Pensioner Leads Police On 27 Mile Chase At 10mph 9 Oct 2011 (Forum)
  , 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. Mr
• Positive (only) aspects of UK motoring 16 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  Heath And Safety - risk assessments - underpinning and enhancing our life experiences. 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
• Byers questions Final part (hopefully) 2 May 2002 (Forum)
  on the site with the required info will suffice. Here goes. I'm sure the formatting will go to pot. Dear Jimmy Young May we propose the following questions for your forthcoming interview with Stephen Byers. We are a group who regularly correspond on motoring matters and have put together these questions
• 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
• And todays lesson in road safety... 13 Oct 2006 (Forum)
  and look in my offside mirror just in time to see the collision.. Looked and sounded pretty nasty so I got out of my car and walked down the road to see the damage. I was already calling the emergency services. Some others had got out too. I was surprised to see the driver of the car the caused
• Turning slowly into side streets 18 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  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
• Have I got a chance? 26 Apr 2007 (Forum)
  the right of way, but there are a lot of considerate drivers who will wave you through once you're halfway out. So, the accident. After arriving at the junction, I looked to the right to see a car about 90 metres up the road, by the traffic lights. I pulled out into the lane of the oncoming car, stopped
• letter from the colonies vol 14 18 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  !) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ My godson is 16 and has graduated high school. When he did so I promised to help him get a driver's licence, a promise too soon forgotten by me but not by William. "But tiyo (uncle) "he whines,"why do I have to take the test? Why can't your police friend sell us my licence, like he did yours
• Protection from rear impacts 13 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  also doing 60 mph close (but not unduly) behind. Blimey, in a Ford Ka, the back of one?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
• Ask Byers Part 2 28 Apr 2002 (Forum)
  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
• The best first wheels 23 Jan 2021 (Forum)
  by newly employed teen, taking a big percentage of their early careers earnings and more importantly increasing the time they’ll be living under your feet. People seem terrified of older cars, believing them to be unreliable and unsafe but I argue that they’re not and to land young drivers
• Driving in Kuwait 25 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  a regular driver in Kuwait than being a coalition military person in Iraq. I suppose that would very much depend on where you end up being stationed - a guy I know whose son is in the north says it's pretty safe, but then his son is kept on base, not doing combat stuff. It's hard enough normally assessing
• Citroen C4 VTRI + Coupe - CITROEN C4 BSI UNIT BURNT OUT !!!!! 5 Mar 2012 (Forum)
  the car would have gone on fire and even worse could have exploded on my drive with me, my 2 young children and my sister in the car or by the car! He had a look around and he could see ash falling on the footwells and had to keep banging the floor carpets to ensure that it wouldn't catch fire
• Ford Focus - Faulty Car (Small Claims Court or Not) 21 Aug 2018 (Forum)
  at a cost of between £40 to £100 for the part itself and I have quotations from garages nearby between £145 to £200 to replace it. I informed the man of this issue and he said he won’t be giving me anymore money because I bought the car cheap (£525) he knew it was for a first time driver my partner and my
• BMW 528 Tourer - Dealer sold car with Speedo not working nd many ot 25 May 2013 (Forum)
  Dear Forum, 11 days ago I purchased a car from a Car Dealer who told me over the phone that the car had 2 issues, namely scratches and the drivers door handle had brocken on the inside. Stupidly I believed the delear, and with a combination of being in a rush and my train
• Risks buying certain 3yr old cars 24 May 2007 (Forum)
  by pensioners or young female drivers. It has few problems and seems a reasonable bet at 3 years old. The other model seems to have taken over the role of the old modded Novas or Corsa`s of a decade or so ago however Its not a Vauxhall. This newish, large supermini is often bought brand new by 17yr olds who
• Why DO we have to have such wide tyres these days? 19 Feb 2013 (Forum)
  the road in chavved-up Saxos/Clios etc? (or is it merely that when grip IS lost, the car would have been going at a higher speed? In which case why not legislate that young drivers can only drive special speed-restricted Smart ForTwos: Skinny front tyres, and a maximum of 1 innocent passenger