ON LESSONS LEARNED
... after the fear of death and the fear of public speaking comes a close third - the fear of sitting beside a learner driver in a moving motor car! (Just joking).
True story! A well meaning, optimistic parent thought that her offspring, a university student, is smart enough to learn reversing out of the driveway first up. Luckily, the gate post stopped the brief driving lesson, or whatever lesson needed to be learned. Who knows what would have stopped the vehicle, had father and daughter made it onto the roadway? Avoid the pitfalls and stress of taking your teenager driving. Read our article on the 10 Commandments for taking a learner on the road. |
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Read the amazing story behind this website (Book 1, Chapter 40) Information in this publication is for guidance only. Regulations may vary in your part of the world. We recommend you use all information, if possible, in conjunction with a professional instructor. All articles copyright Dieter Fischer 2001, unless stated otherwise. |
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Welcome to our World of Road Safety and Driver Education!
Our philosophy is that no driver, beginner or otherwise, should have to go through the trauma of crashing a motor car to learn a lesson! Our website is the result of 25 years professional experience in teaching learner drivers and improving road safety.
Please note! We are based in Australia, but our educational material is used the world over.
Our aim for you is to pass your driving test first time, but more than that, we want to see you SAFE for LIFE.
Please spend some time with us, be it as a student, working through our popular Learner's Guide Workbook, or testing your knowledge in one of our two quizzes Fun-Quiz and See and Click it.
For some lighter reading visit FUN READ. Discover articles that make you smile, think or stimulate you to want to become a safe, responsible motorist. But there's more ... it's all here. The world needs safe drivers - Be one! Have fun!
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This week's Road Safety Thought:
ON WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
A French driver in Adelaide is facing a long jail term after driving on the wrong side of the road and colliding with a young lady driver. Tragically, she died in the crash. Online newspaper AdelaideNow reports that, in an ironic twist, the young Frenchman had won a competition, creating a video clip used in a road safety campaign.
The victim's family is calling for stricter controls on overseas drivers, before allowing them on our roads. Naturally, drivers who in their home country drive on the other side of the road, are prone to kind of mishap. (I used to give my learner driver's this wake-up call, after they had made major mistakes: "When you get your driver's licence you'll be for the first time in your life in a position to kill someone without meaning to." But is the answer a driving test for visitors before they are allowed to hire a car?
Who could plan a holiday, if there is a chance of failing the test after arrival? The tourist industry would suffer, apart from the bureaucracy it would bring with it.
Accidents of this kind are not caused by a lack of knowledge, rather than the driver not concentrating.
From first hand experience (I did it once, while living in Europe) driving on the wrong side is mostly done on turning. It's done instinctively, as the driver failed to concentrate in that moment. When a vehicle then approaches head-on, tragically, the natural reaction of both drivers is to swerve.
Compare it to exiting a lift. After a moment's hesitation, two people move at the same time. Here it's a brush with the shoulder, on a highway the same scenario causes much more drama.
When only one vehicle takes action, the one on the wrong side, both drivers could escape with just a fright and, hopefully a lessons learned.
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