ABOUT US

I was a British Police Driving Instructor in the 1980’s and I also taught VIP Protection Drivers how to think and how to handle pressurised situations so as to remain as safe as possible.

As far as I am aware, I became the only Police Driving Instructor who had never been attached to a Police Traffic Department. I looked at my job in a different way from my colleagues; I was more interested in driver attitudes than in physical driving skills.

In those days I realised that there was a huge gap between what my students were taught and what the general public knew. Until 1990, British Police ‘Class 1’ drivers were the most highly trained drivers in the world. Our Police Driver Training establishment set the highest standards that existed and, ‘British Police Trained’ was a description that immediately commanded respect.

Sadly, this no longer applies. Over recent years, due mainly to political influence, ill-thought out reorganisations and cutbacks within the Police Driving establishments, standards of Police driving have fallen into a severe decline.

Contrary to popular belief, there is a new way, a very effective and successful way to approach road safety.

In order to try to improve matters, especially with regard to VIP Protection Driving attitudes and techniques, I realised that ‘driver thinking’ was more important than teaching physical driving skills and I established a business to promote these attitudes. This is what I do now. Since 1992, ‘Driver Awareness’ courses, on which the book “Mind How You Go” is based, have helped companies to save many hundreds of thousands of pounds in insurance costs by cutting the accident rate among their fleets of drivers.

‘Driver Awareness Ltd’ is not a driving school, so if you are looking for a book about current (and inadequate) advanced driving techniques, this is not the book for you.

This book suggests that there is a new way to approach the delicate and personal subject of ‘Driver Education’. We are all experts and can benefit by increasing our expertise. When we know how to THINK, driving can become (serious) fun, by turning negatives into positives and adopting the attitude that, if other road users are behaving themselves, it’s not the norm, it’s a bonus!

The advice within this book is more of a driving philosophy. This is VIP Protection for everyday drivers; after all, there is no greater VIP than you!

The book was co-written by a friend, Mr. Steve O’Donnell. All the ‘Driver Awareness’ consultants are either ex Police or ex Military and we all agree on this psychological statement:

“IF YOU SORT OUT THE MIND, THE PHYSICAL SKILLS WILL LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES”

“BUY THE BOOK AND TELL US WHAT YOU THINK”

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