Black ice forms on roads and pavements, so-called black because of the colour of the road it forms on. The coat of frozen water is transparent because it is so thin and therefore almost impossible to see. Black ice typically occurs when the temperature rises above freezing and snow on the ground melts, making road […]

When taking your driving test you will most certainly come upon a crossroads, which like all junctions, should be thoroughly practised and taken very seriously. Crossroads provide an intersection not only for motorists, but cyclists and pedestrians as well. When all of these come together in one small area, it’s understandable that accidents can occur. […]

When it comes to driving, we all want to make our lives a little easier. This might mean avoiding the roads outside schools during school run times, or choosing a less busy route to work on your commute each day – Why make life more difficult? One good tip is to consider the road condition. […]

When it comes to driving and the challenges that learning to master being behind the wheel presents, there are many tricks to learn. From how to perfect your clutch control techniques to how to how to become a “Smart Driver“, you are likely familiar with all the rhetoric. One nugget of advice that we can’t […]

As many of us might have expected, we saw the first snowfall of 2017 last week – Waking up towards the end of the week to a blanket of snow, ice and thick frost covering all that we could see. Although it didn’t last long, with most of the country thawing out within a day […]

We all have a dream of how driving would be in a perfect world – No stop-start traffic to put up with, no bad weather to make being out and about in your car a hazard in itself – Just a beautiful, carefree drive in the sunshine with the roof down. One such instance we […]

Our recent article covered the variety of debates that drivers can (and often do!) have with each other. One such topic that many find it possible to argue about is the best place to drive in their cars. For many drivers, the thought of motorway driving fills them with dread and fear, with the country […]

There are a series of new projects in the pipeline to help bring self-driving cars to the Britain, the UK Government has announced. £20 million have been awarded to eight new projects, out of a total of £100 million form the autonomous car fund, to help the research and development needed for driverless cars to […]

Transport has been disrupted after Storm Desmond brought winds, torrential rain and flooding to parts of the UK. Cumbria was worst-hit by flooding with a number of roads closed. In Scotland about 28 flood warnings and alerts are in place with some main roads closed owing to landslides and flooding. There are no trains running […]

In the advent of the development of the self-driving car, Nevada famously introduced the law to allow autonomous vehicles onto it’s roads, signalling the start of the end of driving as we know it. Since the start of this scientific advancement, many others have also started their own attempts at creating a car that can […]