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Never heard of learning, and like I said the insurance is a complex issue, the drink driving I have held my hands up to and stated its something I am making steps to avoid it not happening again, though irresponsible at the time it was something that could of been easily avoided (again you don't know the full circumstances) and quite rightly I was punished heavily for what I did and will be heavily penalised should I require vehicle insurance, on the other hand I drove for a living up to 60-70,000 miles a year for over 20 years with a clean license and not an accident in that time, what I did is more a reflection on me as a person more than my ability to drive well, as both convictions were more about actually breaking the law, than to do with my driving skills, though the drink driving was the more dangerous of the two by far.
The no insurance , well my mother asked me to go get a new tyre fitted to the car, the tyre place was no more than 1/4 mile away, upon leaving the fitting, I had to back out of the entrance due to there being an accident at the main exit, as I was backing out someone collided with me and drove off, someone had got their number plate and suggested as it had happened on private land, to say to the police who were in attendance for the other incident, that it happen as I was backing on to the road, though not a main road, still an illegal move, I was told to produce documents ect which I did bar the insurance, my mother insisting it was insured, forward in time first appearance it was adjourned as my mother didn't turn up with the documents, my mother was at the second and swore to the magistrates it was insured still no documents, adjourned again, by the time the third appearance came around my mother had disappeared, she was never seen again and we found out in 2011 25 years later that she had died in London (she went missing in Manchester in 1986) in 1995 she was just 49 years old, the magistrates though lenient had no choice but to convict me, it's not something I am proud about because apart from that till the drink driving I had an unblemished driving record, I passed both my car and HGV licenses first time, with as I think I have mentioned one of the highest scores in Gillingham and only two minors on the test, how many on here can claim to have passed a test in the last 20 years (apart from those less than 40, and yea I know there will be a few), I took my driving very seriously, sometimes s*** happens in out lives and we don't always deal with it in the correct way.
I was wrong it what I did, I was punished by the law, I don't require condemnation from you, as it is something that has happened quite some time ago now, I have been entitled to get my license back for several years but have choose not to.
There is also a bunch of other psychological s*** as well but I won't bore you with that.
