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GEM Motoring Assist is warning of a significant rise in pollen levels across much of the UK this week, with the arrival of warmer weather. GEM is urging drivers who take hay fever remedies to check their medicines carefully before getting behind the wheel, and to be aware of the possible effects these drugs can […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is using the forthcoming UN Global Road Safety Week as an opportunity to encourage all drivers and riders to consider the risks they face (and the risks they pose) on their daily journeys, and to find ways of reducing those risks. The Fifth UN Global Road Safety […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is urging courts across the country to get tough on drivers and riders who accumulate 12 penalty points on their licences. The call comes as a further example emerges of a driver who successfully invoked the ‘exceptional hardship’ excuse and managed to persuade magistrates that he should […]
GEM Motoring Assist is urging all road users to put safety at the top of their 2019 agenda. The call comes as we once again prepare to make those well-intentioned turn-of-the-year pledges to do more of this or less of that. Thinking about road safety makes particularly good sense in January. After all, there is […]
GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging motorists to ensure they – and their vehicles – are ready for the potential challenges of driving in winter. In this fourth of four advice notices, GEM road safety officer Neil Worth answers questions on driving safely when black ice may be a risk: Why is it called ‘black’ ice? […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging motorists to ensure they – and their vehicles – are ready for the potential challenges of driving in winter. In this second of four advice notices, GEM road safety officer Neil Worth answers questions on driving safely in times of snow: What is a safe […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is urging motorists to take extra care, with plunging temperatures and winter weather predicted this week. Road journeys are more difficult and treacherous when there is ice on roads, foggy conditions or a fall of snow. GEM is encouraging drivers to make good use of some simple […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is today issuing a series of simple tips for drivers to ensure they don’t exceed speed limits. This, says GEM, is not only a key part of reducing collisions and casualties on our roads, but it should also help drivers keep their cash in their wallets. After […]
Road safety organisation GEM Motoring Assist welcomes the Department for Transport announcement that vehicle drivers and passengers will soon be encouraged to use the ‘Dutch reach’ when opening doors from the inside. Pioneered in the Netherlands, the Dutch reach is a method of opening a car door with the left hand (right hand for nearside […]
GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging drivers to reflect on the dangerous moments they have experienced at the wheel, to reduce the risks they face on future road journeys. GEM road safety officer Neil Worth comments: “We are all familiar with those ‘oops factor’ moments of danger, where no harm was actually done but where we […]