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Consumers demand vehicle safety
- 07/04/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
A new customer research study from Frost & Sullivan has found European consumers rank vehicle safety second only to reliability. A new customer research study from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Insight into Voice of European Consumers on Passenger Car Safety Systems, has detailed the findings from web-based [...] -
Volvo launches Life Paint initiative
- 02/04/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Volvo Car UK has launched Life Paint – a product aimed at increasing the visibility and safety of cyclists on the road. The unique reflective spray is designed to react to a car’s headlights, alerting drivers to the presence of cyclists in the dark. Life Paint was conceived by creative agency Grey London and [...] -
Right balance for safety
- 02/04/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
In the wake of the latest government statistics indicating injuries and fatalities were up by four per cent in the 2013/14 period, Tyre Bay Direct is urging motorists to realise the importance of wheel balancers. Leigh Stote, sales and marketing director at Tyre Bay Direct said, ‘Unsafe driving is a major concern [...] -
Older drivers must embrace technology
- 31/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Older drivers need to be helped to stay safe on the roads for as long as possible through a combination of training and technology, according to the AA Charitable Trust. Today Edmund King, director of the AA Charitable Trust and Visiting Professor of Transport at Newcastle University, will address the subject at [...] -
Airbag development for Google’s car
- 25/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Google has been awarded a new patent which could see its driverless car come with airbags on the outside to protect pedestrians, Quartz has reported. In a new patent awarded to Google yesterday, the company outlined a system for external airbags and bumpers that could deploy in the event of an accident. One idea [...] -
Brake calls for graduated driving licensing
- 25/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
It has been estimated that almost 9,000 injuries, 866 of them deaths or serious injuries, could have been prevented in the last two years if the government had introduced a system of graduated driver licensing. Brake, the road safety charity, has condemned the government’s failure to deliver progress, and urged [...] -
Operation Safeway a success
- 25/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Met officers engaged with more than 5,000 motorcycle and scooter riders last week (16-22 March) as part of Operation Safeway. The Roads and Transport Policing Command Motorcycle Safety Team, funded by Transport for London, were out encouraging riders to take part in future BikeSafe-London and ScooterSafe-London [...] -
US investigates Nissan recall
- 23/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
US safety regulators are investigating complaints that two Nissan recalls didn't go far enough to fix a problem with front-seat airbag seat sensors, the Associated Press has reported. The probe covers nearly 990,000 vehicles in the US that were recalled in 2013 and last year because computer software may not detect [...] -
Nine caught topping 120mph
- 19/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Nine people have been caught by safety cameras in Scotland exceeding 120mph during 2014, according to the latest figures obtained by road safety charity the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM). The charity made a Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland asking for details of the top 20 cases of excessive [...] -
Global road safety campaign launched
- 13/03/2015
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The UK campaign to support UN Global Road Safety Week 2015 (GRSW) has been officially launched at the ROSPA conference to show support for the #SaveKidsLives campaign. The focus for GRSW, taking place on May 4 to 10, is child road safety. Using the slogan #SaveKidsLives, theUN Road Safety Collaboration campaign is [...]