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The UK’s biggest independent road safety charity IAM RoadSmart is concerned that too many drivers continue to ignore warnings about the dangers of hand-held mobile phones and not wearing a seatbelt – putting countless lives in danger. This follows the results of a major Department for Transport survey today (7 February) revealing hundreds of thousands […]
We recently covered the fact that the Queen’s Speech for 2016 featured a Transport Bill that would help automated cars take the next step. You can read that article here: http://www.cararticles.co.uk/uk-a-driverless-future-for-cars.html. We would like you ask you though what your feelings are about automated driving? It’s a fact of life that with every new car, a […]
Breakdown cover specialist GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging drivers to put safety first on motorway journeys. The advice follows a recent crash on the M4 in south Wales which left 28 people injured. GEM chief executive David Williams MBE offered some reassurance for drivers: “Motorways may be the fastest roads we use, but they are statistically […]
Rather than amend the information, I’ll pass it on as I received it directly from Suzuki below: Following a condition experienced when carrying out an emergency braking test by a journalist from Autocar magazine on the 30th January, Suzuki carried out an immediate investigation into the cause of this condition. As a direct result of […]
Brake, the road safety charity, has joined a coalition of organisations calling for the UK government to support a proposal to help police catch risky, law-breaking drivers from other countries. The European Commission proposal, published today and backed by TISPOL, the European Traffic Police Network, would allow police across the EU to pursue traffic offences against drivers of […]
The Mail Online has a particularly interesting article on some research that has been revealed – by MPs no less. It demonstrates that there are some huge differences in road safety between areas. Shockingly, road traffic accidents are the biggest killer of 16-24 year olds. The research demonstrates that, for the first time since 2003, […]
Toyota Motor Corporation announced a global recall campaigns for certain Toyota and Lexus models on 24th February. These recalls do not affect right hand drive Toyota or Lexus models sold in the UK. As part of these global campaigns, Toyota is preparing to voluntarily recall some left hand drive European Lexus RX models to address […]