road safety

Data from eCall buttons will be used in one of the trials

National Highways trial six innovations to ...

Aug 29, 2024Comments off

Near-misses, collisions, unsafe driving and roadworks – just some of the hazards that National Highways has to manage on motorways and major A roads across

Hands-Free mobile phone while driving

Video highlights dangers of hands-free mobi...

Aug 12, 2024Comments off

A video resource, grounded in behavioural change theory, has been developed to help reduce the use of hands-free phones by professional drivers, by debunking the

Red X sign on a smart motorway

Drivers ignoring smart motorway lane closed...

Jul 25, 2024Comments off

More than 53,000 motorists have been caught by police enforcement cameras disobeying Red X signs on smart motorways since 2021, according to new research conducted

Driver distracted by sunshine

Safety Score and Safety Coach technology

Jul 19, 2024Comments off

Ian Hare, Managing Director of Motor Management writes; I was intrigued to read about Renault’s new Safety Score and Safety Coach technology in The Sunday

Rising Demand For Last Mile Delivery May Pose Risk For Vulnerable Road Users

The rise in ‘last mile’ deliver...

Jul 17, 2024Comments off

Vehicle CCTV and telematics provider Centrad has shed light on the growing risk from last-mile deliveries on vulnerable road users. Shining a particular spotlight on

MAN Tourliner

MAN SafeStop Assist helps to prevent seriou...

Jul 16, 2024Comments off

Time and again, serious accidents occur because drivers are no longer able to control their vehicle for medical or other reasons. The smart MAN SafeStop

Aebi Schmidt UK's new SK660 truck mounted sweeper

Aebi Schmidt aims for higher vehicle safety...

Jul 15, 2024Comments off

Aebi Schmidt UK is aiming to take safety to another level with its new Street King 660 truck-mounted sweeper which is jam-packed with the very

Acusensus roadside technology

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

David Higginbottom, CEO of Driver First Assist, says Skills for Safer Journeys could dramatically improve road safety. He cites the fact that deaths from RTCs often occur within four minutes, whereas the target time for an ambulance to arrive (if the call is life-threatening) is eight minutes.

Turning drivers into lifesavers

Jun 17, 2024Comments off

Road safety training organisation Driver First Assist has launched Skills for Safer Journeys – a new online training course which could dramatically improve safety for

Fleet Manager monitoring a journey

The critical role of AI in telematics and d...

Jun 13, 2024Comments off

Introduction The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into telematics and driver safety systems has become a cornerstone of modern fleet management. This technological advancement is