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The Times Online has a great article on Britain’s road safety figures – and how we’ve fallen down the European league table – even though we’re on course to meet safety targets by 2010. Here’s an excerpt: “A decade ago Britain had the best road safety record in Europe. By 2006 it had fallen to […]
I’ve normally got pretty excellent car control. This comes from driving a few different cars, experience of different conditions, track days and even go-karting. Nonetheless, in the recent icy weather, I still managed to lose control and skid. I did recover it and was going slowly anyway so there was no real danger. Nonetheless, it […]
The Sun reported on Friday that a woman was caught more than four times over the drink-drive limit – and yet somehow still managed to avoid jail. The woman in question reportedly drank 20 pints and other alcoholic drinks (according to the report, though I find this inaccurate unless she’d drank them over an extended […]
There’s always argument over this and frankly I’m not surprised. I found a report released last month that questioned how road accidents were being reported – and in fact suggested that there’s far more ‘carnage’ on our roads than we actually are led to believe. The report I’m talking about was called into question by […]
As I hinted at recently, I have been unlucky enough to be involved in a motoring collision. Given that we’re now well into winter (and not very far off December in actual fact) I thought it important to share with you all the fact that as many as 40% of drivers involved in accidents simply […]
Every year dozens of people lose their lives on North East roads. The Road Respect campaign is striving to change driving culture in the region by encouraging every one of us to demand greater respect between road users. There’s a range of meanings you can see for the word, but I think what this new […]
Apparently, recent research has shown that motorist who write text messages while driving are more dangerous than those who drink or take drugs then get behind the wheel. Reaction times went down by 35 percent for those who sent texts – to be honest I would have imagined that it would be lower (but that’s […]
Well, don’t say that we don’t care about you all, dear readers. This is especially the case when our cars disengage their handbrakes and simply smash into inanimate objects. To get an idea of how bad the damage can be, check out the photos below from one reader. Naturally, I couldn’t just let this lie. […]
There are few things that annoy me more than people taking completely unnecessary safety risks when driving their cars. It annoys me because not only does it put them at risk (a selfless act as we all have someone to care about us) but of course it also puts other road users at risk, some […]
The picture is (obviously) a mobile phone. What I can never understand is why it’s always someone in a new Merc, Porsche or BMW that is behind the wheel nattering away with the handset cradled to their ear. Perhaps they think they’re above the law, like the woman with a 206 who lives near my […]