Channel 5’s new series, Dangerous Drivers’ School, is attracting a lot of traffic. Even local rags are using it to get publicity – like The Citizen.
It reports that John Thompson from Oswaldtwistle (it’s near Accrington in Lancashire) is to appear on the show. Let me just correct The Citizen for a moment – Thompson has ALREADY appeared on the show, it just hasn’t been aired yet. If he’s learnt anything, he should be demonstrating it now.
Thompson, who is 35, is described as “speed-loving” with a need to “grow up”. It was his wife’s idea – not his – that he appear on the show.
Thompson boasts:
It was the wife’s decision really. I was speeding quite a lot – on the motorway, I would go up to 90 or 110mph…
…I’m a courier driver and I had gotten into some bad habits…
Mmmmm. You don’t need to appear on a TV show to miraculously learn the law. The article quotes the AA instructor who was involved, but it doesn’t say anything about Thompson having changed his attitude.
It’s ironic really that that last blog story was about some idiot trying to complete a 70-mile journey in less than an hour, and this one involves a courier driver who has to get things from one place to another as quickly as possible (I see courier vans most of the day so I know exactly what goes on).
Worth reading the comments at the end of the report, too. Seems like a few people out there have the true measure of it.