9December 2024
Congratulations to Sarah McDonald, who has successfully completed a Passplus course, on November 20, 2024.
Since passing her test on her first attempt at the end of September, Sarah has bought herself a lovely electric car and decided she would like to complete Passplus in her own car. We split the course into 3 sessions. The first was spent getting used to driving a different car and doing some useful things that hadn’t been covered in lessons. Just getting on and off her own driveway, onto a busy road, was certainly very challenging! But she has absolutely mastered it now!
She has been able to join the gym she wanted to, now that she can drive…so we drove there and got some practice at reversing into difficult parking spaces between 2 cars. Then we made sure she felt confident to attempt parallel parking in a tight space, between cars.
The next session we drove on lots of rural roads, visiting a couple of different dog parks, for Ziggy to enjoy days out! We also included motorway driving and unfamiliar multi-lane spiral roundabouts.
Our final session was longer, and Sarah drove through Mersey tunnels to a busy Liverpool City centre, and followed signposts towards M62, which included a congested Edge Lane dual carriageway. We drove a few motorway junctions towards Warrington, then returned through Liverpool, following signs towards North Wales. Using the sat nav, it took us down lots of pitch-black, unlit rural roads, which gave Sarah good practice at using her full beam.
Sarah received her Passplus certificate on November 20th 2024, and phoned her insurance to inform them. They have agreed to knock £78 off her premium!
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of our time together, and it’s great to see how much difference passing your test has already made to your life!