accidents

Complacency in national road safety casualt...

Aug 03, 2020Comments off

The DfT published annual road casualty statistics 2019 for Great Britain this week*, and the overarching trend is no real or dramatic improvement in road

How fleet managers can best prepare for RTA...

Jul 15, 2020Comments off

Shops, restaurants and many other businesses are beginning to reopen as lockdown restrictions ease.  Our pavements and roads are gradually returning to pre-lockdown levels of

Minister highlights significant fall in KSI...

Jun 29, 2020Comments off

The number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) in road collisions fell by 70% during lockdown, transport secretary Grant Shapps has revealed. Government figures

Accidents caused by slow driving are on the...

Jan 02, 2020Comments off

The Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed that fatalities related to slow driving are increasing. Figures from 2019 show that two people were killed and

Driver safety: In the blink of an eye

Nov 29, 2019Comments off

Research from this year’s Road Safety Week (18-24 November) has revealed that nearly a third of drivers claim to have experienced a collision or near

A day without a single road death still the...

Oct 28, 2019Comments off

Nearly half of the countries who participated in Project EDWARD recorded no road deaths on 26 September – although the UK was not one of

1,754 road deaths recorded in 2018

Sep 30, 2019Comments off

Final casualty statistics for 2018 are in line with the provisional figures published earlier in the year – showing continued stagnation when it comes to

Drink Drive: Fatalities up 25%

Aug 29, 2019Comments off

A Government report published yesterday (28 August 2019)* shows that the number of people killed in road accidents where the motorist was over the drink

Watchdog urges for better real-time informa...

Jun 19, 2019Comments off

Road users want better information provided on motorways and major ‘A’ roads, particularly during periods of unexpected disruption, says independent road users watchdog Transport Focus.

Lorry drivers warned after repeated bridge ...

Jun 12, 2019Comments off

Network Rail today warned lorry drivers to always know the height of their vehicles after repeated bridge strikes forced a road in Birmingham to close