Number of motorists taking driver awareness has tripled since 2010

Nearly 1.5 million people took driver awareness courses last year - around three times as many as in 2010. The number of motorists taking driver awareness courses has tripled since 2010, new figures show. A total 1,492,236 people attended and completed driver awareness courses in 2019. Of these, 1,282,698 took speed awareness courses; the rest took part in one of eight other types of course, covering infractions relating to mobile phones, motorways and seatbelts. The figures from NDORS (National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme) reveal a three-fold increase in the number of drivers participating in such courses since 2010, when only 467,601 people did so. The figure increased every year except 2016, when there was a slight drop.