A woman has had her behaviour on the road branded as ‘irresponsible and dangerous’ by road safety campaigners, after being spotted and photographed casually reading a book while behind the wheel of her car travelling at speeds of up to 70mph. The driver was photographed by a passenger in another vehicle while travelling alone along […]
Car giant Ford have announced that they will introduce their new adaptive steering technology to selected vehicles in Europe next year. Traditionally, cars have a fixed steering ratio (number of turns) at the steering wheel, where as adaptive steering actually changes the ratio between the driver’s input at the steering, and how much the front […]
So, here we are – Saturday again! Another week on planet Earth has been and gone in what seems like the blink of an eye. How scary is that?! In what has been another hugely positive week at Chris Chambers School of Motoring, I have also had the pleasure of welcoming two new students to […]
A new report by the Nottingham Road Safety Partnership has called for increased involvement by parents and schools in order to help in addressing the increasingly worrying issue of crashes and casualties caused by young drivers. The online survey, which looked at the behaviour of young drivers and their passengers while driving, found that, among […]
A new study has found that a worrying three quarters of experienced drivers would fail their driving test if they were required to take it again in the present day. Of the fifty experienced motorists – all of whom received no refresher training beforehand – involved in sitting a mock driving test, only 12 managed […]
According to statistics from the RAC Foundation, nearly one in eight casualties on the UK’s roads is caused by young drivers. Despite young car drivers between the ages of 17 – 19 making up only 1.5% of licensed drivers, sadly 11.9% of road casualties hurt or killed involved a driver between these ages. It is […]