Apologies have been doing my family duties.
Yes we were all speeding tossers.
The boy racers however, do it with intent, they speed for enjoyment, for risk and for thrills and because they can.
They don't do it just because they passed their test in 1950 and are confused with a road marking.
They don't do it just because they are trying to get to their mothers deathbed.
They don't do it because the road markings have been moved or are covered with foliage on country lanes.
They don't do it accidentally.
They don't do it because their toddler is screaming distracting them whilst moving into a slower zone.
Before I went on the course I wasn't aware that it was only for people with a previous clean licence (on my course) snapped for breaking the limit by a few miles an hour.
I thought I'd be on a course with people doing 30, 40, 50 over the limit, intentionally dangerous drivers. It wasn't made clear to me. I made the assumption that I was grouped with boy racing tossers because I thought I was being just like one for doing 33 mph in the first 100 yrds of a road following National Speed Limit. I was expecting a bloody dressing down and bllcking and I'm sure other posters on here were expecting that too.
If all drivers were intentional speeding tossers there wouldn't be a SAW would there? There'd be no feeling from the police that, some people make stupid mistakes and misjudged errors and can be reducated into safer drivers.
They'd just slap the fine and points or ban and that'd be that.
Everyone walked away, at least on that day, with a lot of new view points. They are successful. Only one individual walked off thinking he had done no wrong and would continue to drive as he liked.