Drive safe
Top tips
Driving is a privilege not a right, our top tips can help you stay safe on the roads and keep your licence clean.
• Do not exceed legal speed limits - they are there for a reason.
• Remember that speed limits are a maximum not a target - often it is more appropriate to drive well within them.
• Look for speed limit signs and make a point of knowing what the limit is.
• Set realistic journey times and if you’re late don’t try to make up to make up time while driving - better to be late in this world than early in the next!
• Don’t be pressurised by tailgaters to speed - you are in control.
• Remember, if it is a built up area and if there is street lighting, you can presume it’s a 30 limit unless signs show otherwise.
• Be responsible and check your speedometer as frequently as you would your mirrors - it could save your licence.
• If you are driving a commercial vehicle or towing a trailer it is likely that you will be subject to a lower speed limit. Make sure you know what that limit is.
• Concentrate to avoid being involved in a collision.
• Be an ambassador for driving within the legal speed limits - if you comply, the chances are that the driver behind you will too.