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DfT rejects Transport Committee street works reforms

DfT rejects Transport Committee street work...

Sep 15, 2025No Comments

The Department for Transport (DfT) has dismissed the majority of recommendations put forward by the Transport Committee on street works. This decision has sparked debate

Discount of up to £3,750 on electric cars

Discount of up to £3,750 on electric cars

Jul 15, 2025Comments off

Drivers across the UK will soon enjoy discounts on dozens of new electric car models after the Transport Secretary today (Tuesday 15 July) announced a

Sharp increase in drink drive deaths.

Drink drive deaths highest since 2009

Jul 26, 2024Comments off

There’s been a sharp increase in the number of deaths on Britain’s roads caused by drunk drivers. Final figures for 2022 released by the Department

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Scale of distracted drivers in UK classed a...

Jun 24, 2024Comments off

An analysis of the latest figures from the DfT indicates that there may be more than 50,000 instances of people driving while using a hand-held

Generation Logistics aims to promote career...

Jun 17, 2022Comments off

The DfT has got behind a new recruitment campaign, Generation Logistics, launched today at the Multimodal show by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

DfT confirms 2019 casualties ‘broadly...

Oct 05, 2020Comments off

Evidence points towards Britain being in a period when the number of road fatalities is ‘broadly stable’ but not falling, the Government has conceded. The

Van and heavy goods traffic returns to pre-...

Jul 23, 2020Comments off

Light commercial and heavy goods vehicle traffic has returned to pre-lockdown levels according to figures released today by the Department for Transport (DfT). The DfT

DfT moves to help councils impose road clos...

Apr 27, 2020Comments off

The DfT has moved to make it easier for local authorities in England to impose car-free streets during the coronavirus pandemic, in a bid to

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

DriveTech comments on DfT Reported Road Cas...

Jul 26, 2019Comments off

Commenting on the Reported Road Casualty statistics published by the DfT 25 July 2019, Charlie Norman, Director at Drivetech, part of the AA, said: “We