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The clocks have gone forward and days are longer than nights for the next six months; it’s time to get your car hale, hearty and ‘beach body ready’ in preparation for the spring. This week’s tips give advice on getting your car ready for the warmer weather, from IAM RoadSmart’s head of driving and riding […]
GEM Motoring Assist is urging drivers, riders, cyclists and pedestrians to take extra care on rural roads. This is because nearly six out of every 10 fatalities in the UK occur on this type of road. In 2015 (the most recent year available for statistics), 10,307 people were killed or seriously injured in collisions on […]
Ah, the sunny weather is finally here. We at Car Articles can’t promise it will remain, but we certainly hope that it does. What we can do however is give you three top tips for slightly warmer and sunnier weather conditions. Welcome to Spring! Have your air con gassed or serviced. If your car has […]
Here at Car Articles, we like to try and keep you all as safe as we possibly can out on the road. We know however that modern life can be stressful and difficult. As a result, we’ve boiled down a list to five essentials that could well avert a disaster, if potentially even saving your […]
Road safety and breakdown recovery organisation GEM Motoring Assist is advising all road users to take extra care, as snow and hail are predicted for some parts of the country. The conditions follow in the wake of Storm Ewan’s progress across the Irish Sea towards Scotland. GEM road safety officer Neil Worth said: “It looks […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging drivers to avoid getting involved in conflicts on journeys. The advice follows the two year suspended prison sentence handed to Harvey Spencer Stephens following a ‘road rage’ attack in August last year. Former actor Stephens sprang to fame as devil child Damien in the 1976 […]
If you love your car, you will find that the lure of the road is inevitable; whether the desire to travel is within or you just want to break out your beloved motor to experience all it has to offer; there is a richness to a long road trip that you can’t find when flying […]
Road journeys are more difficult and treacherous when there is a fall of snow, and GEM is encouraging drivers to make good use of some simple safety tips in order to reduce the chance of risk, delay and difficulty. Don’t drive if you don’t really need to. The easiest way to avoid trouble from winter […]
It’s the start of the New Year and temperatures have dropped below zero in many places. Even though we hope most drivers will be getting back into their usual routines, the icy roads won’t make the return to work so easy. This week’s tips give advice on how to deal with driving and riding on […]
New Year is the perfect time for drivers to commit to keeping their eyes firmly focused on the road, not their mobile phone. This is the warning from Exchange and Mart, after 28% of motorists it surveyed admitted to using their phone while driving. With nearly 1 in 3 motorists knowingly flouting the law when […]