During the course of driving lessons in Birmingham you’re bound to see any number of illegal acts committed by other drivers. Speeding, overtaking on the left, and parking on double yellow lines (most annoyingly outside Lloyds Bank by Kings Heath Test Centre!) to name a few. But why do people do this? I guess there are many motivations for acting illegally whilst driving. Common excuses could include “I sped because I was late” or “I wanted to show my mates how quickly I can drive” or “I only parked there for a second while I nipped to the bank”. None of these excuses are valid, but some people take things a bit too far! Recently a London borough published some of the excuses that it had been given for driving offences. The excuses range from a UFO spotter having been forced to swerve into a bus lane to avoid a UFO, to someone believing he’d been hypnotised into parking illegally. My personal favourite however is this one: "I won't lie. I should know better than to speed on that stretch of road because I ran a woman over there last week."
Blog posts tagged ‘Birmingham’
What's your excuse?
Automatic Driving lessons in Birmingham
South Brum Driving School is pleased to be able to offer you the opportunity to learn to drive in an automatic car for the first time. Although I don’t teach automatic lessons myself, I have teamed up with another instructor, who teaches automatics in the South Birmingham area.
So whether you live in Selly Oak, Moseley, Kings Heath, Northfield or any other surrounding areas, and you want automatic driving lessons, then please contact us, either by phone, text or email and I will put you in touch with Alan, who’s an experienced, high grade instructor, specialising in automatics.
Other areas covered include Harborne, Hall Green, Longbridge, Balsall Heath and anywhere in between.
South Brum in the press
On Thursday 4 June an article on South Brum Driving School was printed in the Birmingham Mail Extra newspaper in the business focus of the week section. To see and read the article, please click on the image below.
Out-of-hours driving tests
From 17 May 2009 the DSA is changing the way it decides which test centres will offer out-of-hours tests. Appointments classed as out-of-hours are those offered at the weekend and, during the summer, weekday early mornings and evenings.
These will only be available at test centres where there is a high demand, and not at those where there isn’t.
I would imagine that all of the test centres in Birmingham will fit into this category, but contact the DSA after 17 May if you'd like to check.
