It’s estimated that a third of deaths on our roads happen whilst people are driving as part of their job, but does your employer provide you with any speed awareness training? I bet the answer is no. Recent research however suggests maybe your employer should be looking to implement some kind of training, or enrol […]

Dark Outside, Lovely & Warm – Where is The Perfect Place to Fall Asleep? – It’s Your Car or Van. With winter coming, the conditions we drive in will change dramatically, from lovely dry sunny weather where you can have your vehicles window open and get plenty of fresh air, to cold wet or even […]

We all know about electric cars, but I expect not many of us have used one, or even know anybody else who has, so any feedback as to if they do the job properly and what they are like to live with has to be valuable. There are around 350 electric cars being trialled in […]

Road Deaths at All Time Low Well its not often we hear some good news, but it seems road deaths in Great Britain were at an all time low during 2009 and clearly that’s good and its why this part of the Department for Transport’s report is grabbing the headlines. However the report covers a […]

Changes to the way driving tests are conducted in future will mean that learner drivers will not be able to find out in advance of their driving test, the route the ‘examiner’ decides to take. Presently, driving centres publish their test routes online, giving driving instructors an opportunity to coach learner students over that particular […]

You couldn’t have missed this, but cuts in road safety budgets are prompting some council’s to change how they use speed cameras, or perhaps even do away with them totally. In response, nine UK based road safety groups have got together to effectively defend the speed camera as what they refer to as “an effective […]

RAC to help, but at a price! A recent study by the British Insurance Brokers Association found that there are around 150,000 cases of drivers putting the wrong fuel in their car each year and that’s one every three-and-a-half minutes. I know none of us would be silly enough to do that, but just in case, […]

Written Off Car – Insurers offer £6571.94 less than car cost only 4 weeks earlier. I guess we all think we are not going to have an accident, but if we do, we believe our insurers are going to take care of us and make sure we are looked after and do their best to […]

Over in Switzerland where they don’t approve of anything going fast, speeding motorists have their fines calculated using a formula that takes both the income of the motorist and the severity of the speed into consideration. The fines seem to look at your daily income, and then multiply that by a number of days, based […]

For some time now, eastern car manufacturers such as Kia & Hyundai, have offered new car warranties that far exceed those offered by the “mainstream” car makers, such as Ford, Vauxhall, Renault etc. and whilst it would seem charitable to believe its because they’ve got that much faith in the products they make, I believe […]