Police forces across Scotland have launched their summer campaign against drink and drug drivers. The campaign has been co-ordinated by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos) and will run for two weeks. It has been designed to drive home the possible consequences of getting behind the wheel after drinking. A well as […]

They were almost identical cases, 3,000 miles apart, each costing the lives of two young people killed by a drunk, speeding driver. Dominic Hartley and Emily Lewis, both 21, were mown down and killed after landing dream jobs at a summer camp in America last June. And in the UK, Mark Crompton, 20, and his […]

The Road Traffic and Highways (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill was successfully taken through its clauses stage by Infrastructure Minister Phil Gawne MHK. The bill increases the minimum ban for drink-drivers from one to two years and the maximum from three to five years. It sets out that someone whose drink-drive reading is between 115mg and 173mg […]

Recently, my attention has been caught by a rather interesting debate that seems to have come out of nowhere (possibly hidden in the deluge of media coverage of the various Middle Eastern uprisings). After it emerged that the EU’s European Court of Justice (ECJ) had ruled against the legality of insurance companies to discriminate on […]

SWEARING aloud at hat-wearing Volvo drivers who dawdle along at 30 kilometres below the speed limit has recently become non de rigueur. So too has beeping my horn at people who don’t know how to use roundabouts, justifying slight speed excesses with the “running late” excuse, playing the Mamma Mia soundtrack in the car at […]

Around 500 uninsured cars are seized by police every day, according to industry figures. And the most commonly seized vehicle is the Vauxhall Astra, the Motor Insurance Bureau (MIB) says, accounting for almost one-in-five cars. In second place is the BMW 3 series, while the Vauxhall Vectra, Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Corsa complete the top […]

There have been a number of reported cases involving emergency vehicles being blocked in both by accident and on purpose and ambulances being damaged by members of the public. In Merseyside on pensioner being transported to hospital died when gang members obstructed the ambulance by lying on the bonnet and banging the sides of the […]

A motorist who towed a caravan carrying three women and seven children has been banned from driving for two years. Sameer Mirzar, 46, of Stoke-on-Trent, drove the 10.5ft x 6ft (3m x 1.8m) caravan for about 100 miles (160km) for a picnic in Llanberis, Gwynedd. Mirzar, who admitted dangerous driving, was stopped after other drivers […]

CAR dealers can now check employee driving licences with the DVLA through their DMS system. Pinewood has integrated the one-stop licence check system to help dealers tackle Duty of Care and Corporate Manslaughter Act issues. Why has it been done? Because research shows 1 in 7 dealer employees have points on their licence. This is, […]

Named drivers By adding drivers to your insurance policy you can significantly affect the amount you pay as it may go down if you add an experienced driver such as your parents or an older sibling. On the other hand some new drivers are added as 2nd or 3rd drivers on their parent’s policy – […]