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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 […]
Nine people have been caught by safety cameras in Scotland exceeding 120mph during 2014, according to the latest figures obtained by leading road safety charity the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM). The charity made a Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland asking for details of the Top 20 cases of excessive speeding captured on […]
BBC News has a rather fascinating article on how the 30 miles per hour limit came in to force. You can read it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31904471. Did you know for example that in 1934 there were one tenth of the cars on the road that we have today but four times as many deaths? Here at Car […]
Auto Express has an interesting article covering a Danish study – which showed that minor speed limit increases made the roads safer! One of the results of the study was to show that moving from 50-56 miles per hour reduced the speed differential between the fastest and the slowest drivers. This in turn meant less […]
Over two thirds of motorists want the Government to apply the brakes to plans to lower speeds limits on the motorway according to a new poll by Motorpoint. A web-based survey by the UK’s leading car supermarket found 78.1 per cent of drivers opposed proposals announced earlier this year to restrict speeds on a section […]
Brake has spoken out in support of Highways Agency proposals to roll out speed cameras on stretches of ‘smart’ motorways, to target drivers exceeding the 70mph limit. Julie Townsend, deputy chief executive, Brake, the road safety charity, said: “Speed cameras are an extremely well evidenced, cost-effective way to improve safety and reduce deaths and injuries […]
A 34 mile section of the M1 will be operating at a reduced speed limit in order to reduce emissions, if current plans are to go ahead. Concerns are that other motorway sections will also be targeted and will face a drop in 2015. The Highways Agency has offered that Junction 28 at Matlock in […]
Do you have any of the dreaded (by some, I hasten to add) 20 miles per hour areas in your locality? Guidance from the Association of Chief Police Officers clarifying the police position on enforcement of 20mph speed limits has been published and reveals plans for tailored speed awareness courses for drivers who break 20mph […]
There’s a section of main, well used A road nearby me. I use it on a regular basis as it is the through road to another city and coastal areas. Two sections of it at one point were down to a single lane from two lanes. I could understand this if it was clear […]
Auto Express has written about some recent research by the DfT, which states that half of us speed beyond 70mph when on motorways. Given that is the case, perhaps the next question should be about road safety – yet apparently there were 12% less deaths on our roads last year than previous. So, what should […]