Spent some time last week in the company of five driving instructors for a feature I’m writing for Auto Express magazine. It was fascinating, because I’ve had little involvement with these people – who spend most of their time teaching teenagers – since I was, well, a teenager.

Their biggest gripes are with the ‘learning [more]

Tags: Driving instructor, Driving Standards Agency, green badge, mobile phones, pink badge, unqualified instructor

Had a narrow escape on the M5 motorway last week when a car driver decided to gently drift from the inside lane towards the hard shoulder. This would have been fine – in that he wouldn’t have killed anyone but himself – except there was a breakdown truck fixing an HGV’s blown tyre in the [more]

Tags: mobile phones, near-miss, wreckless