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Euro NCAP tests AEB
- 10/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
European safety organisation Euro NCAP is introducing a new test that will check how well vehicles autonomously detect and prevent collisions with pedestrians. With new vehicles offering more autonomous driver assist systems, Euro NCAP’s Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) Pedestrian tests will make it simpler for [...] -
GEM offers winter safety advice
- 09/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Road safety organisation GEM Motoring Assist is offering simple tips for drivers to ensure trouble-free journeys this winter. Giving some attention now to batteries, tyres, anti-freeze, wipers, lights and other car essentials is the best way of ensuring reliability in the months to come. GEM chief executive David [...] -
Technology bigger threat than drink driving
- 06/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Motorists are now more worried about the dangers of distraction posed by technology and social media than drink-driving, according to the Institute of Advanced Motorist’s (IAM) first major survey into safety culture. The Safety Culture Index report was launched today by the IAM, and is a study of more than 2,000 [...] -
Not enough officers to police roads
- 03/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Senior police officers admitted that drivers are routinely getting away with using mobile phones at the wheel because police forces do not have enough staff to stop them. Two forces told MPs that cuts to the number of officers on road patrol mean the risk of getting caught for traffic offences is ‘probably less [...] -
Motorists risk £6bn a year
- 02/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Vehicle history data from the RAC reveals that nine out of 10 motorists are taking on unnecessary risk when it comes to vetting the next car in their life, as just 10% of used car buyers bother to check a car’s history before buying. With 2.8m used cars sold privately every year that means that over 2.5m are [...] -
Texting and walking is a huge risk
- 29/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Ford has commissioned a survey of 10,000 people across Europe to measure the issue of distracted pedestrians – including those crossing the road where there is no official crossing. According to official data, more than 85,000 pedestrians lost their lives on European roads between 2003 and 2013, which recognises [...] -
Support for speed cameras wavers
- 28/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A national survey by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has shown that although most drivers support speed cameras there are big variations across the country – and Londoners and people in the north-east appear to show higher levels of resistance than most. The survey polled 1,000 drivers of all age groups [...] -
Stop The Crash Campaign launched
- 27/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Global NCAP with a group of key corporate partners, including Thatcham Research, is launching a new four year global campaign in support of the current UN Decade of Action for Road Safety to promote awareness of leading crash avoidance technologies in the major emerging automobile markets. The Stop the Crash [...] -
Speed cameras may create bad behaviour
- 27/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Using more than 1 billion miles of driving behaviour data, Wunelli, has revealed the most frequent braking black spots across the UK created by speed cameras, based on motorists braking excessively just before speed cameras to avoid being caught. Around 80% of all the UK speed cameras investigated had hard braking [...] -
Country roads ‘deadliest’ in Britain
- 26/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Three people are killed on Britain's country roads every day, making them the deadliest roads nationwide. Figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT) reveal a total of 1,040 people were killed and 9,051 seriously injured on country roads last year. Some 348 of the fatalities recorded during the [...]