A practical first guide to the roadside, or the complete file: every stage from the blue lights to the courtroom.
The driver’s guide to roadside questions, documents, searches and breath tests.
Most drivers are either too cooperative or needlessly confrontational. Both are mistakes. This book teaches a third way of handling the conversation at the window.
“In the mirror, the patrol car pulls in behind you. The blue light keeps turning, sweeping across the headrests, across your hands, across the dashboard.”
Most drivers go into this conversation with good manners, bad nerves, and no idea which questions they actually have to answer.
Most drivers obey everything, or fight everything. The whole skill is hearing which of the three you are dealing with, in the moment, with blue light in your eyes.
A video answers one question. A stop does not happen as one question.
The videos are fragments. The Complete File puts the road in order.
GET THE COMPLETE FILE68 chapters, in the order a driver meets them. From the lay-by, to the envelope, to the courtroom.
“Sorry, officer, is that something I have to do, or are you asking?”
“I’d rather you told me, officer.”
“Happy to give my details, officer.”
“I don’t consent to a search, officer.”
“What are your grounds, officer?”
“I’d like to speak to a solicitor.”
No. The book explains the law in general terms so you understand what is happening. It is not advice about your own case. When a situation becomes serious, the book’s own advice is to ask for a solicitor.
Traffic stops · searches · breath and drug tests · the envelope · points and bans · everyday offences · collisions · the station · the court. The Essential Edition is included.