Nothing unusual there — I get that feeling quite often, usually at around 4am when I am nothing of the sort.

But on this occasion I had sleepily stopped that pesky alarm, rolled over and gone back to sleep.

Even dashing around from room to room and skipping breakfast won't get you to work on time now.

When you get into the car, it's absolute gridlock on the roads and that's when most of us get tempted to put our foot down a little bit.

But for me, speeding and reckless driving is one of my pet hates. On some of the quieter roads we have here in the Dales I see it all too much.

In my opinion, overtaking is rarely safe. But on my way out of Matlock of an evening, I routinely see cars weaving in and out of lines of traffic at high speed, thereby saving themselves all of two minutes of their journey time.

The most infuriating thing about people driving recklessly is not just that it is so needless, but that it also puts others in danger.

On my first driving lesson my instructor said to me that I should always remember I am in control of something, first and foremost, that is potentially very dangerous.

That is something that has always stayed with me.

The latest figures released on road accidents in Derbyshire show a welcome decline in the number of deaths and serious injuries, but there is still more to be done in educating each new generation of drivers.

There was an anti-speeding campaign a couple of years ago that, I think, said it best: "Would it kill you to be late?"