Police pulled over a learner driver after witnessing the instructor using his mobile phone during the lesson.
After the car was stopped earlier this week in Greater Manchester, the teacher was given a Traffic Offence Report.
On January 31, the student driving the white Toyota saw police patrols and pulled over in Salford, Greater Manchester.
However, according to the police, the instructor was “engrossed in his mobile phone call” and failed to see, as reported by the Manchester Evening News.
According to Greater Manchester Police, the instructor received a Traffic Offence Report (TOR) for using his mobile phone while giving a lesson.
After the car was stopped, the police published a picture of it next to an officer.
In a post, GMP Traffic said: “The instructor of this learning vehicle was so engrossed in his mobile phone call he failed to notice the #RPTF patrol on Great Clowes Street.
“Luckily his student did and kindly pulled over.
“Instructor issued with TOR for using a mobile phone under tuition.”
Many people left comments on the incident on the Manchester Evening New’s Facebook page.
One person wrote: “Needs naming and shaming! People are paying good money for inferior services! In fact, needs his instructor license rescinding!”
“I had a driving instructor who fell asleep. He only woke up when I went round a bend too fast and the car swung round the corner. Then on top of that, said he didn’t know where he was in the area”, another person claimed.
A third person added: “This is a duty of care towards his or her pupils, disgusting behaviour”.
“So many instructors I see doing this. I would be fuming if I was paying them to play on phone”, a fourth person said.
12 thoughts on “Police stop learner driver during lesson due to instructor using mobile phone”
Where is the photo off the vehiclee mentioned in the article?
Can someone verify that it was a qualified instructor and not an illegal o0ne charging for the lesson or an friend/relative of the pupil.?
If it was a qualified instructor then his status as an instructor will be looked at very carefully by the DVSA’s ADI registrar.
I can guarantee that he will be shopped to the registrar if the police or he, himself, doesn’t report iot to the registrar
revok the badge +6 points to be awarded.
After this he or she should do all 3 parts to go on register within 1 year to go back on register.
Not true if they get 6 points on the licence they cannot start again a year later as have to wait for the points to clear as you cannot be a Adi with that amount of points
I sincerely wish police in unmarked vehicles would look out for those rogue driving instructors in the Tottenham and Wood Green areas of North London. As a driving instructor myself, I’m disgusted by those ‘rotten apples’. The DVSA’s Fraud & Integrity team should crack down on them like the proverbial ton of bricks.
I sincerely wish police in unmarked vehicles would look out for those rogue driving instructors in the Tottenham and Wood Green areas of North London. As a driving instructor myself, I’m disgusted by those ‘rotten apples’. The DVSA’s Fraud & Integrity team should crack down on them like the proverbial ton of bricks.
If a person is caught driving with excess alcohol they lose their licence for 1 year, but if it’s an ADI it’s 4 years.
All driving penalties should be 4 times more severe for an ADI.
Alternatively in this case, suspension of ADI licence for 3 months, followed by a Standards check.
The standard of instruction is getting far worse than when I first ventured out 20 years ago. The training providers are awful but credit is given to LDC as I have never heard of a bad word said against them and all instructors seem to think it’s easy money. It’s not in any way. Standard check tests most pay money to update their skills before check. I just do what I do day in day out and work with my clients.
Report it to the Registrar. The 6 points will be more than enough to get his ADI certificate removed for 4 years. At the end of that period he may reapply. This will involve the resitting of the full qualifying process.
I am a Driving Instructor in Chester and have heard so many horror stories from clients coming to me from other schools. Also the amount of Instructors we see on their phones chatting away on a daily basis is ridiculous. it is totally wrong.
The public are also very talented the amount we see negotiating roundabouts or taking a turn at a junction whilst holding a mobile phone is also silly.
Was the tuition vehicle moving or stopped with the engine on at the point of use? More detail required in the report.
I see many members of the public all too willing to leap in with their criticisms and judgement but the article was a bit lightweight on details.
One of my colleague instructors received a call from traffic police under caution, she was taking her pupil home from test, the pupil was calling family, friends with the good news, police ASSUMED it was the instructor using a mobile during a lesson. All too easy to judge in absence of the facts. The public need to learn to wind their necks in a bit. Too many social media heroes with far to much to say for themselves, in the absence of sufficient facts.
I agree absolutely disgusting.
I’m a driving instructor and when teaching my phone is turned off
Leave a message if you need to get in touch.
I also agree he should have his ADI Licence taken away
I do not do this while I am teaching and certainly would not be engrossed to a point where I did not see the police. My attention on lessons is solely towards my learner driver and what is happening in our immediate surroundings to ensure a high level of safety. That is very unprofessional and not a real surprise in seeing this happen, there are poor instructors out there just like in any business.