THREE quarters (78%) of employers are unaware of impending EU driving legislation aimed at decreasing the number of sight related road traffic accidents.Research commissioned by Specsavers Corporate Eyecare* has revealed that one third of professional drivers have substandard vision. The driving related survey into eyecare policies across 187 UK companies, represented between 295,566 and 448,629 […]

Driving instruction should be compulsory in schools to make Irish roads safer, politicians have said.A cross-party committee also wants provisional licence-holders to have to take a full driving test within a specific period and called for parking fines to be halved if paid within 14 days. Penalty points must also be imposed on the last […]

THE number of motorists drink driving in the county remains the same as last year despite campaigns to stop it. Gloucestershire Police carried out over 500 breath tests on drivers during their annual summer drink drive campaign and arrested 52 people. The percentage of people who failed the test, eight per cent, was the same […]

As the summer holidays are upon us, parents need to watch the pennies and make them stretch even further. Many families will be holidaying in the UK and using their car, so how can drivers save money whilst driving. Firstly watch your speed, fuel consumption increases dramatically with speed. Give yourself plenty of time to […]

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 […]

How in touch are we as drivers with the Highway Code and do we pay attention to signs and road markings. A lifeboat volunteer in the popular tourist area Holy Island – Northumberland has had to attend a rescue operation when tourists have driven on a tidal causeway outside safe crossing times and become submerged […]

CAMPAIGNERS are urging the Government to buy back the M6 Toll for £1 BILLION after its worst ever traffic flow figures. The privately owned 26-mile road was opened in 2004 with the aim of cutting chronic congestion on the M6 motorway. But drivers have steadily deserted the route after prices rocketed to £5.30 for cars, […]

A new camera called ASSET (Advance Safety and Driver Support for Essential Road Transport) is heading for our roads and is able to detect motorists committing up to five offences. The camera is advanced enough to film inside a vehicle and detects the following: If a driver is wearing a seatbelt Speeding offences If a […]

Chinese campaign to cut drink-driving appears to be entering the slow lane, weeks after it began with a tough new law and a high-profile conviction. Authorities hoped that making drink-driving a crime would help to cut one of the highest road death tolls in the world and tackle the effects of a hard-drinking culture. Previously […]

A busy stretch of the M6 motorway limited to 50mph for 2 years due to roadworks has amazingly attracted only 56 speeding tickets in that time. A report by local newspaper the Express & Star reveals that the Police forces in the West Midlands, Staffordshire and West Mercia divisions covering the lengthy stretch issued just […]