The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is calling for an end to Daylight Savings Time clock changes in order to prevent serious injury and death on the road. The family safety charity supports the European Parliament proposal to stop the obligatory one-hour, twice-yearly clock change which extends daylight hours in the summer, but reduces […]
Do Darker Evenings Spell More Dangerous Roads?
With the end of British Summer Time (BST) bringing in darker evenings, Brake, the road safety charity, is calling on the Government to commit to moving to Single/Double Summer Time (SDST) to help save lives on the road. SDST would move our clocks forward an additional hour all year round and so would create lighter […]
Should We Have Lighter Evenings All Year?
As the nation prepares to move its clocks forward on Sunday to usher in the lighter summer evenings, RoSPA is calling for a change that would bring lighter evenings all year round. Typically, around the period in the autumn when the clocks go back, bringing darker evenings, the number of pedestrians killed and seriously injured […]