Interview with Brake for Road Safety Week 2015
The safety of motorists and vulnerable road users will become the focus of the nation for an entire week from next Monday (23-29 Nov) for 2015’s Road Safety Week. We sat down with Joe Burns, Fund...
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Bedfordshire Police could use M1 speed cameras to raise money
The Bedfordshire Police crime commissioner has said that he could resort to using speed cameras on the M1 to raise money. Speaking to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Olly Martins said that the ...
‘Drive less, live more’ this Road Safety Week (Nov 23-29)
Motorists will be urged to ‘drive less, live more’ as part of Road Safety Week next month. This year’s Road Safety Week (Monday 23 – Sunday 29 November) will encourage motorists to thank about how...
Risks of dehydration being ignored by motorists
Motorists are neglecting the importance of good hydration, according to new research. Two-thirds of UK drivers (67%) failed to recognise that dehydrated motorists could suffer slower reaction time...
The UK needs to adopt America’s approach to promoting road safety
You’ve got to hand it to the USA, they know how to do things big. Whether it’s a burger or skyscraper, those on the other side of the Atlantic generally do things on a grander scale, and so it is with their road safety awareness.
We’re a nation of rubberneckers and that’s okay – three in four motorists admit to crash curiosity but consider it perfectly natural
One in ten would slow down if they could get a better view of the crash scene.
Ford puts the spotlight on pedestrians
Ford is developing a new headlight system capable of picking out hazards such as pedestrians and animals and then spotlighting them to draw the driver’s attention. The camera-based system will als...
Temporary cameras catch almost 80,000 speeding motorists
Temporary speed cameras have caught more than 77,000 speeding motorists over 18 months, potentially earning the government as much as £4.7 million. The cameras were set up on stretches of major ro...
There are too many illegal tyres on the roads, warns ATS Euromaster manager
Paul Duff, an ATS Euromaster multi-site manager from Manchester, has warned that the high number of illegal tyres on the UK’s roads is a risk to road safety. Duff has claimed that around 90% of th...
Road safety organisation calls for action as number of OAP drivers increases
As the number of over-80s on British roads passed one million last year, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) is calling for the government to consider elderly drivers in road legislation. Re...
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