You couldn’t make this up!
It was reported earlier this month, that a Female Motorcycle Instructor was drunk whilst out training her students on the road. She fell from her bike three times whilst carrying out Direct Access Training -not in Cardiff I hasten to add.
It was in Bradford that the instructor was found by Police to be almost four times over the drink drive limit. She was also found to be in possession of two brandy bottles hidden in her jacket…..one of which was empty!
She pleaded guilty at Court and faces a possible jail sentence.
At 1st Class Rider Training we have for some time had the use of a breath test screening device and have used it when students who we suspect have been drinking heavily the night before a training session, turn up smelling of intoxicants ‘the morning after’.
Many people do not realise the effects that drinking in the evening can have on their driving the morning after.
Using a ‘Driving Instructor Association‘ approved Breath Testing Device we reserve the right to require students to undergo a screening test if we suspect them to have an excess of alcohol in their body. This safeguards us, the students themselves, and any other trainees who may be riding with them.
As we only use instructors with the highest degree of professionalism my instructors will willingly subject themselves to such a test at any time for the full peace of mind of the students they are training.
As for the case of the drunken instructor in Bradford, we know her test was ‘positive’ but it wasn’t reported how her student got on in their test!