Rural roads danger

Road safety charity, Brake, is urging motorists to slow down and take care when driving on rural roads (more…)

THINK! ‘stay in control’ campaign

The road safety initiative, THINK!, has today released its newest campaign aimed at motorcyclists to ride defensively (more…)

Definition of serious injury

The EU strategy on reducing serious road traffic injuries sets out a definition of “serious injury” (more…)

Cycle lights brighter than legal maximum

LED bicycle lights have been found to be brighter than car headlights (more…)

West Midlands speed cameras turned off

All 305 fixed speed cameras have been switched off by the West Midlands Police in a cost-cutting exercise (more…)

Global road traffic injury statistics

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released statistics for the Global status report on road safety 2013 (more…)

Excuses for using a mobile whilst driving

Surrey Police has revealed the top unusual excuses given by motorists driving whilst using a mobile device (more…)

Police lorries catch out motorists texting whilst driving

Police in South Yorkshire are using an unmarked lorry to get a better view of motorists who may be texting whilst driving (more…)

Insurance premiums hiked due to crash-for-cash gang

261 fraudulent crashes from one gang raised the insurance premiums for a whole county (more…)

M42 variable speed limit gaffe

Speeding tickets issued along two stretched of the M42 could be quashed (more…)