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No Improv Comedy Traffic School for You

The U.K., which already outpaces the U.S. on traffic safety, is getting serious:

“Motorists could face driving ban after two speeding tickets”

More here, here, and here.

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3 Responses to “No Improv Comedy Traffic School for You”

  1. Matt Says:
    November 26th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    The Telegraph article says “Of course no one wants drivers whizzing past school gates at 35 mph during the day but in the middle of the night, assuming the driver is paying attention to the driving conditions, this seems like a completely different matter.”

    I disagree entirely. The argument seems to be that since there’s probably no one around it’s OK to travel faster than is safe if there are people around. The problem being the “probably”.

  2. David Hembrow Says:
    November 28th, 2008 at 1:15 am

    Britain’s rate of road safety is largely down to a policy of making sure that virtually everyone is always in a car and protected by a metal box. The road safety for people (especially children) who are outside cars and vulnerable on the street is pretty bad. One of the worst in Europe.

    However, the best rate of overall road safety in Europe is actually in the Netherlands, the country in which the most people travel other than in cars. The overall safety rate here is very much higher than in the UK, and children particularly benefit.

  3. Alfred Rogers Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 3:04 am

    4Trafficschoolbyimpov and Myimprovny - a fraud online traffic safety and defensive driving school owned by Gary Alexander is one of the biggest fraudulent I have come across in my whole life. Firstly when I tried to find the online chat option on their support page I could not find one and when I tried to contact their customer service at 1.800.660.8908 no one answered my calls for at least 10-15 times. At last when the call was taken I was rudely informed by them to stop calling and asking for my own money back as no refunds will be made. I was also given a threatening to get beaten if I take any legal action the company or its owners.

    The only words that comes to mind when we talk about Improv Traffic School, Myimprony or Gary Alexander is FRAUD and CHEATS. Please beware of them.

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