Overcoming driving nerves
Unlike road rage, which gets lots of media attention, road fear, apart from occasional disparaging remarks about 'Sunday drivers' is largely unacknowledged. Admit to being petrified of spiders, lifts or clowns and you'll soon find people who share or at least empathise with your turmoil. But own up to gripping the wheel in terror when bombing down a motorway slip road or slowing to a crawl when dazzled by oncoming headlights and the response is more likely to be sneering incomprehension. But the fact is that there are a lot of women who, despite having full, clean driving licences and years of experience are very wary of certain aspects of driving and limit themselves accordingly.
