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How Not to Crash
Reg Local is an ex-police driving instructor. With a number of years operational experience as a traffic officer and several years of teaching police drivers at standard and advanced level, including pursuit tactics and VIP protection driving, he has a wealth of experience to share with the reader.
In this book, Reg examines the most common causes of accidents in the UK in detail and shares practical advice on how to avoid making driving mistakes. He also gives sound advice on how to deal with other drivers’ mistakes and on how to spot and avoid potential accidents before they happen.
This book is suitable for anyone, from newly-qualified drivers, through to experienced and well qualified advanced drivers. It is written in a straightforward, informative and humerous style and Reg introduces some easy concepts which anyone can adopt as part of their everyday driving.
In this book, Reg examines the most common causes of accidents in the UK in detail and shares practical advice on how to avoid making driving mistakes. He also gives sound advice on how to deal with other drivers’ mistakes and on how to spot and avoid potential accidents before they happen.
This book is suitable for anyone, from newly-qualified drivers, through to experienced and well qualified advanced drivers. It is written in a straightforward, informative and humerous style and Reg introduces some easy concepts which anyone can adopt as part of their everyday driving.
292 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 14, 2016
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June 3, 2016
I did not enjoy this book very much. I liked the premise of looking at the cause of accidents in most common to least and picking them apart a little, however in reality the book doesn't venture more than basic tips that largely boil down to paying attention.
The first flaw to me is that the "causes" of the accidents come from police reports which are acknowledged in the book a couple of times to be inaccurate, but other times relied on as near enough fact. At the end of the day people aren't going to admit they were using their phones for example, and the author does compensate for this in their "finger in the wind" adjustment of the likely % of accidents caused by phone use but it is very vague and basically pointless.
Another thing that really disappointed me was that a significant percentage of the book was devoted to drug driving, with a long list of a huge array of drugs, descriptions of their effects on people and thus driving etc, we're talking pages after pages of this but of course the obvious conclusion is ... don't take drugs then drive? This was literally just padding and average padding at that, I did not buy this book for a read about the affects of various drugs on a human.
As well as this there are numerous points where within a few pages entire paragraphs or sets of paragraphs repeat themselves, I'm not sure if this is accidental or because the book is not meant to be read one chapter after the other? Either way I imagine an editor could have provided some value here.
Not sure I have much else to say except I felt this entire book could have been article length and given the same value, or more by not overloading you with bumph.
The first flaw to me is that the "causes" of the accidents come from police reports which are acknowledged in the book a couple of times to be inaccurate, but other times relied on as near enough fact. At the end of the day people aren't going to admit they were using their phones for example, and the author does compensate for this in their "finger in the wind" adjustment of the likely % of accidents caused by phone use but it is very vague and basically pointless.
Another thing that really disappointed me was that a significant percentage of the book was devoted to drug driving, with a long list of a huge array of drugs, descriptions of their effects on people and thus driving etc, we're talking pages after pages of this but of course the obvious conclusion is ... don't take drugs then drive? This was literally just padding and average padding at that, I did not buy this book for a read about the affects of various drugs on a human.
As well as this there are numerous points where within a few pages entire paragraphs or sets of paragraphs repeat themselves, I'm not sure if this is accidental or because the book is not meant to be read one chapter after the other? Either way I imagine an editor could have provided some value here.
Not sure I have much else to say except I felt this entire book could have been article length and given the same value, or more by not overloading you with bumph.
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