Cambridgeshire is one location we offer our advanced driving course, which is designed for companies and private individuals. We cover all areas of Cambridgeshire and come to you for the training. To date, we have provided training in Cambridge, Huntingdon, March, Duxford and Wisbech.
The county of Cambridgeshire has a good network of rural roads, where much of our advanced training takes place. For motorway training, we will often head onto the A1 (M) or west towards the M1.
Remember – All our on-road driving courses are tailored to your exact requirements. For both business and private clients.
During our advanced driver training, we cover many elements, including:
- Observation
- Speed limit awareness
- Creating a safer mindset for driving
- Adapting your driving style on a range of roads
- How motoring law applies to you, road sign awareness and what they mean
- Coping with driving stress
- Manoeuvres, parking and driving in tight areas like car parks
- Driving in high-risk weather (rain, snow, ice)
- How to become a defensive driver in city/town traffic
- Learn types of skids and how defensive driving can reduce them from occurring
- Learning to be an economical driver and save fuel
- How to anticipate what another driver is about to do
Benefits of advanced driver training (personal):
- Improve driver ability and confidence
- Remove bad habits
- Address problems specific to your driving
- Improve your car control
- Reduce wear on your vehicle
If you are looking at an advanced driving course as part of a fleet driver training plan, the advantages to training cover:
- Increase driver safety in your fleet
- Demonstrate Duty of Care
- Possibly reduce your fleet insurance costs
- Boost morale among your drivers
- Provide increased skill and confidence for your drivers
- Reduce your fleet fuel costs
You can book a course online at www.advanced-driving.co.uk/book/ or please call us or send us an email. We try to reply to all emails within 1 hour during working hours. Whether you are looking for a quote, based on a large number of drivers, or simply have a few queries, (private and business customers) our team are here to assist.
Road Safety Risks and Information – Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is set in the east of the UK between Norfolk and Bedfordshire and is served by M11 and A1 motorways with many fast A road routes linking the towns and cities of Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon and Wisbech. Cambridgeshire is also a popular rural area with quick links to the Norfolk coast and will see more tourism during the summer months.
Motorway travel is stressful for many drivers, and in Cambridgeshire, there are some particularly hazardous accident hot spots, for example, junction 9 of the A11 at Ickleton, where the motorway splits into the M11 and the A11 at Stump Cross. Another high-risk area to be aware of is the joining of the M11 and the A603 to the east of Cambridge, Junction 12. When driving the A1 motorway that merges from the A14 just outside of Huntingdon, there is a challenging set of roundabouts to be aware of that links the A14, the A1 Motorway, and the A141, and statistics show that there have been some severe accidents along those junctions. Understanding motorway regulations can be beneficial, especially if you are unfamiliar with using them often. Many A road routes spread throughout the county also worry some drivers. They can be very fast in isolated areas, such as the A14 between Spaldwick and Thrapston, where several fatal collisions have happened in the past few years. Another troubling area is the A10 from Waterbeach to Ely, where accidents have also been very severe.
The A roads that run into the centre of towns are full of urban accidents, and although the speeds in towns are not as high as on motorways, there have been many severe and fatal accidents. These could have been avoided with better observations. In Cambridge, the A603 runs from the M11 into the retail centre and joins many more minor roads that spread towards the city’s outskirts, such as Mill Road and Parkside. Statistics show that this is a very high-risk area for collisions. Hills Road and Regent Street are also littered with crash sites. In Ely, although relatively small compared to Cambridge, there are more than the average accidents per square mile, which have occurred in the Cambridge Road to Lynn Road areas.
In the many rural areas of beautiful Cambridgeshire, there are some perilous routes, such as the minor routes between Ely, Soham and Wangford, where sadly, many fatal accidents have occurred. The A1307 from Cambridge through Little Abingdon and onto Haverhill is another very hazardous route, so drivers must understand and respect the regulations of rural driving if they intend to travel in the countryside.
These are only a very brief outline of collision sites in the county. If you have any specific roads you travel on in the area and are keen to discover what parts are at higher risk of collisions, don’t hesitate to contact us. We offer a free-of-charge service to anyone who is interested.