Texting or emailing while driving doubles reaction time and makes drivers more likely to miss a flashing light, according to new research. In a small study, researchers at Texas A&M University’s Texas Transportation Institute studied the impact of texting in an actual driving environment. “Essentially texting while driving doubles a driver’s reaction time,” said Christine […]

Young drivers are being made scapegoats and priced out of the market by insurance companies desperate to counter the loss of premiums from disloyal customers, according to the findings an Independent on Sunday investigation. The study found that soaring premiums for young motorists – one company quoted £9,000 for a 17-year-old – are not in […]

Mr Eden was jailed last week for seven years after he was found guilty of death by dangerous driving. He has been travelling at excessive speeds and lost control of his car, which then drifted and collided into an oncoming car. Mr Eden owned a range of fast performance cars and it was due to […]

Sky Sports presenter Georgie Thompson was banned from the road for 19 months yesterday after she admitted drink-driving.The glamorous ex-girlfriend of TV host Dec Donnelly was more than twice the legal limit when she was breath-tested by police last month.They pulled her over outside her flat in Chelsea, London, after they saw her hit another […]

WALKERS hiking up Snowdon – the highest mountain in England and Wales – were shocked to find a car, apparently driven by a Cheltenham man, parked just a few hundred yards from the summit. Mountain rescuers yesterday branded as “dangerous” the audacity of the driver who steered the 4×4 vehicle up the 3,560ft mountain. It […]

A Scottish law student has been jailed for five months after being caught driving three and a half times over the drink drive limit for the third time. Mr Rose, 44 was also banned from driving for five years. Courts had decided this was the only reasonable punishment as the reading was so high on […]

More than 240 diabetic drivers have had their vocational driving licence revoked in the last three years alone, according to ­official figures. The data, released under the Freedom of Information Act, suggests that there could be many more people unable to use their HGV driving qualifications than previously thought. The DVLA figures show that in […]

POLICE have warned drivers who drink before getting behind the wheel that they will remain vigilant as a summer drink drive crackdown comes to an end. North Yorkshire Police’s month long campaign against drink drivers has proved successful, with a number of offenders charged and fast-tracked through the courts. With one week of the campaign […]

Eleven theory test centres around the country are set to close at the end of August. The DSA are closing centres in Basingstoke, Bath, Birkenhead, Clydebank, Colchester, Dunfermline, Durham, Motherwell, Runcorn, Solihull and Workington. With all these closures, theory test centres will have to merge. Campaigners are concerned with the distance pupils will have to […]

Saudi Arabia will see women come out in force on Friday 17th June when they fight for their rights to be able to drive. Currently there is no law banning women however, the interior ministry imposes regulations stipulating women should not drive and there are consequences if caught driving. Female activists have started a campaign […]