• Top tips to avoid tyre blowouts
    • 17/07/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Drivers have been urged to check their tyres to prevent blowouts this summer, as more than half of Brits risk destroyed wheels every day. Motoring experts at Snooper are warning drivers to check the condition of their tyres, or risk serious consequences this summer. A tyre blowout occurs when the warmer [...]
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  • MOT extensions could cost drivers more
    • 12/07/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Proposed changes to MOT testing will cost drivers more in the long run and reduce road safety. That is the view of Jason McManus of Mouths Motor Company, who says plans to extend the period between vehicle safety inspections from one to two years are ill-considered. He said: “What many people don’t realise [...]
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  • IAM RoadSmart launches new safety campaign
    • 16/06/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart is launching a campaign in alliance with organisations across the industry to make the roads safer for motorcyclists and ensure they are consistently recognised as vulnerable road users. It is calling for a greater recognition of the benefits of motorcycles as a key step towards [...]
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  • Drivers urged to tread carefully with wheel safety
    • 07/06/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Over a third of UK drivers (40%) cannot confidently carry out a tyre tread check according to new research by automotive marketplace eBay. More than half (53%) of 18-34-year-olds don’t know how to check that their tyre tread is within the legal limit. Older generations also lack confidence with this [...]
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  • 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 [...]
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  • Speed measures set the limit for drivers
    • 24/05/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    New research has found that 20mph limits backed by physical measures have substantially greater speed and casualty reduction benefits than those without. The research project was carried out by the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS), with an international team of road safety experts, and [...]
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  • 1.3 million MOT failures on the road
    • 10/05/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    One-in-10 cars that passed their MOT last year should have failed, according to an investigation by What Car?. This equates to nearly 1.3 million cars on the road now with potentially dangerous defects. As part of the 2021-2022 MOT Compliance Survey, a team of DVSA expert vehicle examiners retested 1,732 [...]
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  • Autoglass warns against MOT revamp
    • 03/05/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Department of Transport (DfT) consultation on its proposal for new vehicles to require an MOT test after four years rather than three concluded in late March. This is the second proposal following the government’s suggestion of shifting the annual MOT to a two-year cycle last year. Although the result of the [...]
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  • IAM RoadSmart warns of drug-driving epidemic
    • 27/04/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    A hidden epidemic of drug-driving is at large in Britain, with almost a third of motorists unwittingly driving with dangerous amounts of drugs in their system, according to the UK’s leading road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart. But the drugs in question are everyday prescriptions and over-the-counter medications, [...]
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  • Potholes blamed for nearly half of windscreen chips
    • 20/04/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    New research from Autoglass has found that 44% of drivers in the UK who have found a chip or a crack in their windscreen in the past 12 months believe potholes are to blame. Autoglass found that a third of UK drivers (33%) have had windscreen damage in the past year. In addition to those blaming potholes, 35% of [...]
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