I think you can upgrade your membership but may have to do the whole you can’t report a breakdown for 24 hours. So worth checking as it might just work out on timings.
Urgent prescription delivery…
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How did they get their licence?
I think the first point I’d make there is anxiety is a straight MH condition - from what they outline in the article, there’s no issue with that person’s technical driving ability, it’s all about the MH aspect.
Also, while I don’t get anxiety issues while driving, I can still recognise that there are plenty of absolute fuck-clumps driving on motorways, often at ludicrous speeds. Being worried about what other drivers are going to do is far from irrational.
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Absolutely. Really glad I no longer have to commute.
N is normally a confident and safe driver, but has huge anxiety on motorways. She now actually refuses to drive on them, and is a nervous wreck as a passenger.
This was caused by being turned sideways and dragged down the M40 by a lorry about 20 years ago.
Fairly reasonable, I think.
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While I’m not bothered about driving on Motorways I can see why some wouldn’t like it. Mrs P seldom drives on the motorway if we’re going anywhere past Bristol.
Coming from Plymouth , the roads are quieter.
The thought of driving in London would fill me with dread. Fuck that!
“I sit in my lane and I’m frozen, totally petrified. I can’t overtake and because you don’t overtake, people start to beep at you and that drives me into more of a frenzy,” she says.
One wonders which one she considers ‘my lane’?
Guaranteed to be the middle one.
It does baffle me some of the people I pull over and their driving standard. It’s your responsibility to make sure you are fit to drive before you drive.
I pulled someone going c.35 mph on the M23 swerving around. They had just been prescribed new powerful drugs and ignored the advice around driving, could have easily caused a big accident.
The other day in one journey from Haywards Heath to Crawley in an unmarked car, someone did not give way on a roundabout and I had to do an emergency stop to not hit them. They still argued it when I pulled them over 
Then as I entered Crawley someone went through a red light as it changed from amber causing on coming cars to stop which are on a different set of lights. Again they argued it even though I was parallel with them and easily stopped in time at the lights.
Middle lane people are my favourite in the unmarked, pull up infront of them and put the matrix board down and flash the blues telling them to pull in a lane. If they do, I drive off all good. If they don’t or the pull back out to the middle lane after I drive off a bit, they get a ticket.
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Constant cause of problems here as half the population do not seem to understand the highway code with respect to right of way on roundabouts.
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Same here; quite a bit of road building has been going on including lots of new roundabouts, but most of the drivers haven’t been taught how to negotiate a roundabout since they’re really a last-15-years phenomenon.
Nobody signals when they’re approaching, on or leaving the roundabout, so the only safe approach, especially on the bike, is to make sure you aren’t next to anybody cos the fuckers can and will go anywhere with no notice 
The Highway Code literally couldn’t be clearer, of course
So if she ever leaves the left lane she’s in breach of it. If she’s capable of driving at up to 60mph she should be happy enough in with all the wagons, surely ?
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FoL#2 Lauren now has her works van, which won’t fit on the drive, so she gets to park like a cunt and annoy the neighbours…
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You forgot to mention that the drive is taken up by the motor home!
Half the cunty parking round here is because the drives are full of motor homes (or caravans) so cars are abandoned on the street.
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Motorhome lives on a farm most of the time, drive currently accommodates: 1x Freelander 2, 1x S Max,1x Clio & 1 Fiesta ST3 and a trailer.
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My brother has been really struggling driving on mways and A roads for a few years.
He couldn’t overtake anymore,and hated to be ask to go somewhere if it involved a biggish road.
He had hypnotherapy a few months ago and was given a tape to listen to.
It solved it straight away and just drove from London to Dundee with no issues.
I struggle driving over bridges,and it’s been like that for over a decade or so ever time I got to Bristol,into Wales or the qe bridge dartford.
It’s irrational but real.
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I’m glad that your brother identifed this and took action that allowed him to overcome his fear of motorways.
At not one point have I suggested that a fear of motorways is irrational.
Personally speaking, I started driving a bit later than my friends and had to go from not driving at all to regular motorway driving to Leicestershire for college.
To that end, once I passed my test, I booked a Pass Plus* course which was a massive help.
People tend to forget that when they pass a Driving Test, it is a minimum standard.
There is lots of support out there to help new drivers in what is an incredibly crowded road network full of dustracted motorists. Key thing is finding a decent Driving Instructor- not a family member or friend!
I really do get how fear or lack of confidence may affect driving standards. I have trained many people how to drive buses in Greater London. And yes we did venture into Central London.
The atmosphere was supportive and there was never any such thing as a stupid question. However lives rely on getting this right, so it wasn’t like a holiday camp either.
It was not easy letting trainees go if they did not pass a Progress Check.
This is why I look at things rather differently.
Edit: *Still going almost thirty years after I took the course:
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I know a few people with a licence that have never really driven much post-test. Most of them now express some sort of anxiety or fear as their primary reason for not driving. I can totally understand that.
I came to driving late, aged 30, after urban cycling for most of my life up to that point. I already had road sense honed from years of self-preservation on two wheels before I sat behind the wheel of a car.
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Similiar but with a thumb rather than handlebars
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Journo gets too close to car in front and has a collision: