3:10pm Friday 10th April 2009
By David Paine
LEARNER drivers are no longer clogging up the streets through a quiet Worcester housing estate.
Driving instructors are now taking their students off the local test routes in Warndon Villages to practise their manoeuvres in different areas.
We previously reported in your Worcester News how councillors were worried that someone could get hurt after a young girl was almost knocked down in Corfe Avenue.
A request was made to instructors to alter the routes they use for training while the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) – which registers instructors, employs examiners and conducts theory and practical tests – said it would put up posters and talk to approved driving instructors.
Speaking at Warndon Parish Council meeting, Councillor John Buckley said: “The roads in the Corfe Avenue area have been relieved of learner drivers now. There is a significant difference.
“More negotiations are going on to spread the learner drivers into different areas so there is some respite for everyone.
“They have actually stopped in Corfe Avenue altogether.
“It wasn’t the intention of residents, that was to get it shared out more, but it has actually stopped it.”
There had been reports of cars queuing along Hastings Drive waiting to reverse around the corner into Corfe Avenue, which was forcing other mot- orists on to the wrong side of the road. There were also claims a learner driver did an emergency stop in Woodgreen Drive, a busy main road through Warndon Villages.
Coun Buckley said the problem seems to have been sorted out without a meeting with the test centre and instructors having taken place.
“There have been some phone calls going on but no meeting has happened,” he said.
The DSA declined to comment.
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