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Education courses for speeding drivers have a “long term impact” on driving behaviour, reveals a new study carried out by Professor Robin Martin, of Aston University Business School, Birmingham.
“A speed awareness course does improve people’s attitude and intention not to speed in the future,” said Professor Martin, who headed the in depth 18 month research project into the impact of the course.
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He said that it was “one of the best” designed studies to examine the long term benefits of speed awareness courses which were introduced by the Government across the UK to re-educate drivers’ and reduce road casualties as a more constructive alternative to fines or prosecution.
The research results were welcomed by West Midlands Police which runs courses across the region in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Dudley, Coventry, Walsall and Solihull.
Inspector Mick Hartill said: “West Midlands Police recognises the findings, that the national speed awareness course has a positive impact on driver behaviour.
“We will continue to work to reduce poor driving which impacts on road safety and to offer speed awareness courses as a means to educate rather than prosecute motorists who exceed the speed limit.”
Courses are held in Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and Walsall.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) researcher Cara Donald interviewed 1,311 motorists caught speeding from five police regions, including West Midlands, between November 2010 and April 2012. They had all opted to attend the course delivered by the not for profit TTC 2000, part of the Shropshire based TTC Group, the UK’s largest course provider.
Professor Martin and Cara carried out a comprehensive review of how people behaved before and after the course, how much they learned and their attitude to the course, including their future intention to positively modify their driving behaviour.
They tracked their views before attending the course, immediately after and up to six weeks later. Interviewees were encouraged to voluntarily participate in the research and complete a series of questionnaires and attend some focus groups in lieu of a donation made to the NSPCC for each response. A total of £2,315 was presented to the NSPCC.
Professor Martin, an academic who analyses data, admitted that he had never heard of speed awareness courses before being asked to carry out the totally independent research study.
“The results clearly show that the speed awareness course led to reliable improvements in client’s attitude to speeding and importantly their intention not to break the speed limit,” he said during a launch of the research findings to senior police personnel and national road policing officers.
“The benefit of the course occurred immediately and persisted several weeks after course delivery. The speed awareness course led to very reliable improvements in clients’ attitude towards not speeding.”
Many people originally attended the course just to avoid three points on their licence but once they completed the course, they realised how good it was, he said.
A total of 80 per cent said they would attend the course again because they knew they would learn something. Course material was shared among more than just the course attender with a “cascade” effect through family and friends.
Older women had a more positive attitude not to speed than younger men after attending the course, revealed the report.
The motorist’s view of the need for safer road initiatives improved as a consequence of attending the course because they had learned useful information and realised the importance of driving within the required speed limit.
The course challenged misconceptions, raised awareness and positively impacted upon motorist’s future intentions. It helped people to take personal responsibility for the motoring behaviour within a non-judgemental environment.
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The research showed that people who blamed others for ‘their’ speeding and had a ‘mindset’ that they shouldn’t be on the course had a more negative view of the education and consequently were less likely to change their behaviour as a result, said Professor Martin.
People who had already amassed penalty points on their driving licence had a lower attitude to the course benefits. Older people had the best attitude, particularly older women. The amount of annual mileage did not have any significant impact on the results.
Attitude and future intentions were positively influenced by the wide variety of motorists of all ages on the course. Individually and collectively participants felt able to reconsider their behaviour and attitudes once they realised they were not alone, added the Professor.