Adrian Shurmer

I was a British police driving instructor and I also taught VIP protection drivers how to think and handle pressure 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 life, and my job, in a different way from my colleagues. I was more interested in driver attitudes rather than physical driving skills.

In those days, I realised there was a huge gap between what my students were taught about driving and what the general public knew. Until 1990, British Police ‘Class One’ drivers were the most highly trained drivers in the world. Our police driving training establishments set the highest standards 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 severe decline.

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

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 this book is based, have helped companies save many hundreds of thousands of pounds in insurance costs by
cutting the accident rate among their fleet of drivers.

Driver Awareness Limited is not a driving school, so if you are looking for a book about current (and inadequate) advanced driving techniques, you have picked up the wrong book.

This book - 'MIND HOW YOU GO' - 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 when other road users are behaving themselves, it’s only 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 yourself.

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