Posts Tagged ‘road safety’

Blessed motorcycle helmets

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

A youth road safety initiative in Thailand provides motorcycle helmets blessed by monks (more…)

30% of drivers text at the wheel

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

A survey of 841 drivers by road safety charity Brake reveals that 3 out of 10 drivers admit to texting whilst driving (more…)

Insurance cost for young drivers matches university tuition fees

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

The IAM conducted a search for insuring a fictional 17-year-old driver and came back with a price just over £9,700 (more…)

12% drivers admit ‘micro sleeping’ at the wheel

Friday, July 15th, 2011

A survey of 1,000 drivers reveals that one in eight fall asleep at the wheel (more…)

Strategic framework for road safety reactions and criticisms

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

The Government today published their proposals for the future of road safety, here are some of the reactions and criticisms to the framework (more…)

Bikers targeted in road safety campaign

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Derbyshire Road Safety Partnership has launched ‘Operation Focus’ designed to prevent accidents involving motorcyclists (more…)

Speed cameras switched off in Bristol

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Bristol is to switch off speed and red light cameras (more…)

Half of fixed speed cameras not working

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

A Freedom of Information request made by consumer magazine Which? has revealed that over half of all speed cameras aren’t functional (more…)

Speed camera data to be made public

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Under new proposals by Mike Penning, the Road Safety minister, local authorities will have to publish data about their speed cameras (more…)

Police stations to get drugalysers

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Mike Penning, road safety minister, has announced that by 2012 all police stations could have drugalysers (more…)