Sponsored post- Axa Respect on the Roads Campaign

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I used to drive 20,000 or more miles a year. Then my job switched to desk based and we moved two miles from the office. It dropped dramatically and I still only tend to drive once or twice a week now, mostly at weekends. As a part time motorist (as it where) with almost a quarter of a million miles under my belt, I've seen pretty much everything that can happen. I've had people threaten to kill me because their #60,000 SUV can't compensate for them being in the wrong lane, I've been run over on a pedestrian crossing by a motorist with spittle flying from her mouth at my temerity to cross on a green man, so Axa's Respect on the Road Campaign is something I can fully get my not inconsiderable frame behind.

Always thinking big, Axa are looking to get courtesy back on the British roads. You know the sort of thing, letting someone out at a junction because its a nice thing to do, not a sign of weakness, and not screaming down the outside lane in the approach to roadworks and cutting in at the last possible moment before the traffic cones remove your lane. If you would like to get involved, the campaign website is a good place to start, and their Facebook page is a better place to continue.

The video below shows the kind of scene that likely happens on a road a mile from you on a daily basis, acted out by kids. Makes you think hearing it come from the mouth of babes as it where doesn't it?



I have to admit to being exposed to that kind of behaviour when I was a nipper by my Dad who wasn't above teaching us a few new choice phrases when he was running late.

Fortunately with kids we're never on time for anything so that removes the sense of urgency to get from A to B that seems to enrage so many people. Axa have also been out on the streets of London in a black cab and the result is the "cab cam" video.


You can see more vides on the You Tube channel Respect on the Road.

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