Keep a clean license and pay for Norman and Derek to lecture you for 3 hours
I did a speed awareness course 3 years ago and only about 30 mins of the 3 hours was usefull, the rest was just the usual "Speed Kills", "Hit a Child at 30mph and....." the only beneficial parts were refreshing about stopping distances in wet/dry etc and acceptable speeds.
One of them was a funny bloke and made it worthwhile listening and you had a good banter with him, however the other guy (Who as TG would say clearly had an Adenoid problem) and had obviously been a health and safety inspector in a previous job (so much so that I actually asked him at the end what he did before this and he replied "Health and Safety training")
, well he just made you want to sleep.
A funny thing was getting everyone to admit the speed they were doing and area they were caught in, one woman there sneered at me when i said i got done for 72 in a 60 (A149 Kings Lynn to Snettisham), then it came for her turn and she said "I was only doing 39 in a 30", I promptly piped up that it was OK for her to drive past a school at 39 but for me to be doing 72 in the middle of nowhere was unacceptable (it raised quite a few sniggers around the room), later in the session I also pointed out to the same woman that I was only 20% over speed limit whereas she was 30% over, silly cow!
There was also an old boy there who could not see what was wrong with 40 in a 30 (Probably one of those that drives at 40 in a 50 then stays at 40 in a 30) one of my pet hates!
I openly admit that I sometimes put my foot down on the open road but NEVER in built up areas!!!.
Answering someone elses question, there was a guy caught doing 68 in a 50 on our course! (Dual carriageway apparently)
