Someone once said that if the motor car was invented today, Health and Safety would ban it.
They may have a point. The problem is, the motor car has been with us for over 100 years and now we are trying to make it as safe as we possibly can.
The UK motorway network has achieved incredible improvements in safety in recent years but there is still much that can be done. Improvements in the infrastructure of the motorway and better driver education are top of that list.
“Safer Motorways” continues to educate, inform and lobby for better safety on both our motorways and our main A road network.
Motorists who cause fatalities by driving dangerously face up to 14 years in jail under new sentencing guidelines. Those who cause death when distracted by a mobile phone, especially if they drive while reading or writing text messages, should receive up to a seven year term, the Sentencing Guidelines Council said. Prosecutions will be imposed whenever it is…
Whether you think boycotts, blockades or government petitions are the answer, there must be a way the average motorist can start making instant savings on petrol costs? Indeed there is – you can save the pounds in your pocket by conforming to these simple ideas listed below. Are they tedious and time consuming? Well, yes some of them…
Accidents on the south Buckinghamshire stretch of the M40 have more than doubled since the year 2000, fire fighters revealed this week at the end of a shocking 12 months of tragedy. This month’s newsletter delves into the motorway’s 2007/08 reign of terror and asks why is this particular section of motorway so hazardous, and what can be…
British motorists are to be hit by new digital speed cameras that sneakily photograph on-coming vehicles without flashing, campaigners warned this month. One of the new cameras was unveiled on Friday 30th May, but promptly drew ridicule after being left pointing the wrong way. The new “robotic” cameras will be digitally networked, meaning tickets and penalty points may…
The new sneaky ‘non-flashing’ cameras (as reported in article 2) this month, are likely to diminish the number of mobile hand-held cameras used by the police force, as the number of offenders/criminals/motorists caught on the new cameras are expected to soar. Which fittingly leads us to our favourite speed camera story of the year. In true (yes, true)…
