Road Safety

Does turning the clocks back cause road traffic accidents?

RoSPA is calling once more for the clock change to be scrapped, claiming darker evenings are directly related to more accidents.

Young driver deaths ‘swept under carpet’ says road safety charity

A road safety charity says young driver and passenger deaths don't get adequate attention, particularly compared with the problems of knife crime and drugs

The government has made it easier to create a ‘play street’

The phenomenon of 'play streets' is getting encouragement from the government as they make it easier for communities to reserve their roads

Speeding drivers ‘most likely to crash’

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, used insurance company data to conclude that speeding drivers are more likely to crash.

Safety body warns of ‘dangerous’ automated driving confusion

Seven in 10 think they can already buy a car that drives itself – and it’s car manufacturers’ branding of so-called safety tech that’s to blame

Car insurers define what is an automated car

It should 'manage all reasonably expected situations by itself'

Revealed: the worst places in the UK for car crime

Where are the areas in which your car is most likely to be vandalised?

RAC reveals motoring mobile phone ‘epidemic’

11 million motorists admit they have used a mobile behind the wheel in the past 12 months

Automatic emergency call for ALL new cars sold from 2018

Automatic emergency call - or eCall - will be fitted as standard to every new car sold in the EU from 2018 following a vote by the European Parliament.

BTCC to introduce breath tests for drivers

Breathalysers for BTCC drivers as series organisers clamp down on 'the risk' of the morning-after effect