Road Safety

Five surprising things your car does in sum...

Jul 24, 2019Comments off

The summer months are hard on cars – they have to battle against baking sun, busy traffic and humid conditions, hopefully without missing a beat

Councils need to cut back more – and ...

Jul 23, 2019Comments off

Breakdown and road safety organisation GEM Motoring Assist is calling on local authorities to tackle the present menace of road signs obscured by foliage. Obscured

DfT injects £348m into boosting local road...

Jul 20, 2019Comments off

The Department for Transport has today (Saturday 20th July) announced nearly £350 million is being made available for councils to improve local roads up and

Road safety action plan announced to cut ro...

Jul 19, 2019Comments off

Failure to wear a seatbelt could result in penalty points as well as fines, under new plans to reduce the number of deaths on the

Highways England clearly on right lines to ...

Jul 17, 2019Comments off

‘Ghost’ road markings and blacked out lines, which can confuse drivers, could become a thing of the past thanks to Highways England’s global search for

Abellio London Bus adopts fingerprint-based...

Jul 15, 2019Comments off

Abellio London Bus, one of London’s most innovative public transport companies, has become the first bus operator to adopt new fingerprint-based drug testing technology to

Motorists warned of lower drink drive limit...

Jul 15, 2019Comments off

British motorists planning to drive abroad this Summer are being warned that the drink drive limit in England & Wales is higher than anywhere else

Driver crashes car because they couldn’t ...

Jul 15, 2019Comments off

A driver whose cluttered car was so messy it caused a collision has been shamed by police officers on social media. Hampshire Police were called

Autonomous vehicles reach a new milestone

Jul 12, 2019Comments off

On 11 July, VINCI Autoroutes and Groupe PSA have deepened trials to assess a vehicle’s ability to drive autonomously at cruising speed and pass through

Highways England goes multilingual with roa...

Jul 09, 2019Comments off

Electronic message signs have gone all multilingual in a ground-breaking initiative to improve roadworks information for lorry drivers. Highways England has started giving roadworks information