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Pothole damage costs soar
- 18/03/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Road safety and breakdown recovery specialist GEM Motoring Assist has warned drivers to be even more careful of potholes after council budgets for compensation has fallen by more than half. According to the latest Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance report, 18% of local roads, or 37,000 miles, are judged to be [...] -
Road safety charity calls for clearer signs
- 20/06/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Breakdown and road safety organisation GEM Motoring Assist is calling on highways authorities and landowners to tackle the recurring menace of road signs obscured by foliage. Obscured road signs are at best a nuisance for drivers, and at worst can be misleading and dangerous, according to GEM. The Highways Act [...] -
Road fatality figures make grim reading
- 30/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Provisional government figures show there were 1,695 road deaths in Great Britain during 2022, a year-on-year rise of nine per cent. GEM Motoring Assist chief executive Neil Worth said: “These disappointing figures show how much needs to be done if we are ever to see sustained, long-term reductions in the number [...] -
GEM backs road safety initiatives
- 12/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Road safety and breakdown recovery organisation GEM Motoring Assist is supporting three important road safety initiatives next week. The United Nations Global Road Safety Week, the Project EDWARD week of action and the RoadPeace 2023 Challenge are all taking place to hightlight initiatives to reduce the number of [...] -
Driving speeds down nearly a third
- 03/03/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Average speeds in the UK were 30% down in 2022 compared to 2021. DVLA figures revealed that the number of speeding convictions in the ‘SP30’ category for 2022 were estimated at 607,231 compared with 841,107 in 2021. The most recent figure was also lower than those for 2020 (731,020) and 2019, when 801,695 [...] -
GEM backs Road Safety Week
- 14/11/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Road safety and breakdown recovery organisation GEM Motoring Assist is encouraging every road user to get involved in Road Safety Week, which runs from 14-20 November. The theme for Road Safety Week, organised by the road safety charity Brake, is ‘safe roads for all’, something fully supported by GEM, with [...] -
Concern over Britain’s drug drivers
- 26/04/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Road Safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is raising concerns about drug driving across the UK. In particular, GEM is worried by recent reports of ‘sky high’ recordings over the legal limit, and by inconsistencies in sentencing of offenders. For example, Christopher Backhouse, who killed his [...] -
Support Road Safety Week
- 18/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Road Safety organisation GEM Motoring Assist is offering suggestions for drivers to support Road Safety Week (starting Monday 23 November), and to do their bit to reduce the number of deaths and injuries on the UK’s roads. GEM chief executive David Williams MBE puts the safety picture into perspective. ‘Every [...] -
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 [...] -
GEM encourages motorcycle safety
- 13/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist has issued a list of seven simple tips to help motorcyclists put safety first on journeys this summer. GEM chief executive David Williams MBE comments: ‘Most motorcyclists show high levels of anticipation and observation; these are vital for staying safe. [...]