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Parents urged to ‘Bin the Booster’
- 07/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Child safety brand Britax has launched its 2015 ‘Bin the Booster’ awareness campaign. This nationwide campaign, supported with powerful crash test footage, urges parents to get rid of any booster cushion seats they might have and opt for highback boosters with head and side impact protection to ensure children are [...] -
Dashcams should mean cheaper insurance
- 07/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Almost two thirds of motorists believe their insurance premiums should be cheaper if they have a dash cam fitted according to a new poll by Motorpoint. The online survey by the UK’s leading car supermarket found 68 per cent of those quizzed felt they should get a discount from insurance companies for having a [...] -
‘Break the drink drive habit’
- 06/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Brake, the road safety charity, has reiterated its call for a zero-tolerance drink drive limit, in response to government figures showing Britain is still failing to adequately tackle its drink drive problem. A final estimate shows 240 people were killed by drivers over the legal drink drive limit in 2013, while [...] -
IAM offers bikers free advanced lesson
- 06/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
In an effort to encourage bikers to take their skills to the next level, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) is launching its biggest ever giveaway promotion in England and Wales geared exclusively to bikers. Any bike licence holder will be entitled to a free one hour taster session with an IAM qualified [...] -
Driver continues journey after M5 crash
- 05/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A man who drove a severely damaged car for 42 miles at speeds of up to 90 mph has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. Michael McCluskey, 30, from Mill Lane in Birmingham, was stopped by police on the M5 on 30 May, an hour after he had collided with a lorry near Gloucester. The damage to his Vauxhall estate [...] -
Camber Ridge launches $60m test facility
- 05/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Camber Ridge has announced its financial partnership with Teton Capital of Jackson, Wyoming, to launch a new state-of-the-art facility for vehicle tyre characterisation, which will begin operations in 2016. The facility aims to offer all the advantages of testing real tyres on real surfaces, but with the precision, [...] -
Toyota Safety Sense added to small cars
- 05/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Where Toyotas are concerned, being small is no barrier to benefiting from the latest safety technology. The Aygo city car and Yaris supermini are now available with Toyota Safety Sense, providing a range of features that can help prevent an accident happening, or reduce the severity of an impact. Toyota Safety [...] -
One in 10 UK imports previously written off
- 05/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
New research from consumer car-history check experts MyWheels.ie, carried out on behalf of the Irish Independent, shows that one in 10 vehicles imported this year had previously been written off. The investigation also found that the number of imported write-offs is rising month on month. Sources claim that [...] -
WEBUYANYCAR conducts largest theory test
- 31/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
More than 20,000 qualified motorists completed an online driving theory test and 1 in 3 qualified drivers failed. Webuyanycar.com, the national online car buyer, asked drivers all over the UK to test their knowledge of common road signs and driving rules. The interactive test was designed along the same lines as [...] -
RAC urges against blanket lights-out
- 31/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The RAC has urged local authorities against a knee-jerk reaction following new evidence which suggests motorists are at no greater safety risk with street lights off at night. This should not mean a blanket switch-off. Instead a ‘halfway house’ with selective lights left on and low-cost, better-quality lamps [...]