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Rural Roads Lessons

Rural Roads carry the least traffic of any type of road on the road network , but they are where most deaths and serious injuries occur.  Here is an extract taken from a ROSPA Report.....

“The vast majority (80%) of car user deaths occur on rural roads, as do two-thirds of serious injuries. The nature of rural roads: narrow, bendy but with high speeds is a likely cause for the severity of collisions experienced.

Over two-thirds (70%) of child casualties on rural roads are car passengers, whereas only 29% of child casualties in urban roads are car occupants. This is because children make more, and longer, car journeys in rural areas, there is a lack of public transport, services such as shops are more dispersed, and car ownership is also higher.

In 2005, 40 children were killed when travelling in cars on rural roads, 381 were seriously injured and 4,613 were slightly injured. This contrasts with urban roads where there were 5,753 child casualties in cars, resulting in 11 deaths.”

If you are not convinced in the need for specialist Rural Road Training click on this link ROSPA to read the rest of the report or “Google “rural road deaths” and you will see just how much of an issue this is. Unfortunately little is done about it and it is very much up to us as individuals to ensure that we are properly trained to cope with this type of road. When you where learning to drive, no doubt you would have spent some time on rural roads but not enough to to properly prepare you for this type of driving. You may ask why was this vital aspect of your training neglected, if these roads carry such potential for danger .

The answer is simple. Few driving test centres are close enough to these types of roads for them to be incorporated into test routes and even when they are you would probably spend no more than a few minutes on them. Therefore driving on rural roads is not properly tested which in turn means that most driving test candidates are not properly trained on them. Don’t think that because you rarely travel on this type of road means you are not at risk. This very lack of experience makes you especially vulnerable when you do find yourself on them.  All advanced driving tests including IAM, ROSPA and the DSA Carrdington special test, place a great emphasis on the this type of driving. Alan Rennie at scottishdrivers.co.uk has sat the DSA Carrdington special test twice achieving an A pass.

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