{"id":478713,"date":"2026-05-11T06:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:11:14","slug":"the-speed-the-merging-the-overtaking-i-overcame-my-fear-of-driving-on-the-motorway-and-so-can-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478713\/","title":{"rendered":"The speed, the merging, the overtaking: I overcame my fear of driving on the motorway \u2013 and so can you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFear of motorway driving affects women over 35 disproportionally, and can be very limiting. But there is help out there. Meet Cara Gorey, who conquered her fear with some expert help\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cara Gorey overcame her fear of motorway driving. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ih Cara Gorey_4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cara Gorey overcame her fear of motorway driving. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019ve been driving for 20 years but for the last decade I have avoided motorways. The speed, the overtaking, the merging \u2013 it gives me the heebie-jeebies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Repeating my driving test five times and being involved in a car crash with my kids on board has made me super fearful of motorway driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fear of motorway driving affects women over 35 disproportionally, and can be very limiting. But there is help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,81745,6796,147476,147477,7,8],"class_list":["post-478713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-news-in-90-seconds","tag-service-journalism","tag-shp","tag-signature-health","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116554464455445430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}