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On a more pro-active note,
Jay (and anyone else having driver training) one of the best £20 I ever spent was having a driving lesson directly AFTER passing my test when I had my full licence. I don't know if Britain is unique in keeping student drivers off the motorways, but the result is that we get freshly qualified drivers with absolutely zero experience of how a car behaves at speed.
I took some advice, and paid for my trusted driving instructor to give me further coaching, in motorway driving, teaching me how a car would react at 70mph, as opposed to the maximum of 30/40mph I was used to. I can honestly say that extra tuition saved me from an accident within weeks of qualifying. I can still remember the yellow bus and the silver BMW 525 which made me take evasive action on the M40....
And that was 15 years ago.
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