We are a voluntary group of
advanced driving and riding enthusiasts working in the area of North
East London and South West Essex.
Our aim is to improve the level of road safety through driver and
rider training along with encouragement to take the Advanced Driving
Test administered by RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of
Accidents).
We operate in a friendly and informal atmosphere because you will
learn best whilst relaxed. Our sole aim is to reduce the carnage on
our roads.
The term 'Dangerous Road' is purely an
invention of the media. We believe there is no such thing. Roads can
be poorly engineered and badly maintained. They can be subject to
adverse weather but this isn't, in itself, dangerous. It is the road
user that makes the highway environment dangerous.
We believe, it is through ever improving standards of drivers and
motorcyclists, will the carnage on our roads be dramatically
reduced.
If everyone used the roads responsibly (to
the Highway Code) a road crash would be national headline news, just
like those involving aircraft. Are we just too blasé?
In just one London borough, (Waltham
Forest), road crashes, where people were killed or seriously
injured, cost
£37.3M in 2005; just one small borough and not
including the non injury knocks!
Click here
to see pictures of this year's Reverse and Park event
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Did the tree jump out then?
There we are, a nice straight road, no parked cars near by and
a hundred metres up from a 'T' junction the car crashes into a
tree at the side of the road. So what happened? The car had
turned up from the junction and was accelerating up the road
towards the major junction at the top.
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picture Ray Woods |
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No other cars
involved and the passenger and driver looked well shaken but
what are the other costs? Two Fire engines, two ambulances, two
London Ambulance fast response cars plus three police cars. Then
came the fine fellows from Redbridge Recycling Team, who whilst
passing cleared up the debris. The doctors and nursing team at
the local hospital. Yes, the list can go on and on.
The tree is as well as can be expected.
The driver was subsequently heard to say ‘the steering wheel
had locked up’.
I wonder if there was also a problem with the brakes?
No doubt, all will be revealed once the police have examined
the vehicle
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OVERTAKING ~
HOW NOT TO DO IT!
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Now the limit point is quickly coming closer as the bend
approaches and most
drivers would call it a day here and come back into the space
beside them
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Not for this
cavalier Vectra driver! (see the oncoming car, just coming into
view).
Evidently they just missed each other, otherwise we would have
a third photograph!
Has the Vectra driver learnt from their experience? We
certainly hope so. |
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Don't just learn by a hit or miss method...
Join NET RoADA, or one of our sister groups and we can teach
you how to undertake this most dangerous of manoeuvres, (and
other aspects of driving too), with confidence. |
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and, someone who got it wrong on a bend... |
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Fast in slow,
(well stationary actually), out...
you can't see the bends right deviation sign, it's under the
car!
So remember; slow in and fast(er) out. |
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Parking is an important skill ~ will
this driver cut the mustard? |
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pictures above from Nick Reeks |
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Or this one... |
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Well, it is
an off-roader! ~ picture from Jim Jones |
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