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 […]
According to the Road Haulage Association (RHA), in-car cameras could, in time, become a pre-requisite for all cars as part of measures to combat the problem of uninsured drivers and fraudulent insurance claims. Some fleet insurers, it seems, are already demanding that such cameras are installed into vehicles covered by its policies, and one fleet […]
Video footage which appears to show a motorcyclist running an unwitting cyclist off the road, has caused outrage throughout the cycling community on social media. The footage shows an unidentified motorcyclist appearing to knock the cyclist from his bike, then proceed to condemn said cyclist for getting in his way. The cyclist – who was […]
According to data released by IntelligentCarLeasing.com, the majority of young drivers are taking to the roads without even basic practical motoring skills. It seems that as many as 11 out of 20 young people in the 18-24 age bracket admitted to being unable to chance a car tyre, with 57.1% of young men confident that […]
A survey conducted by road safety group Brake and insurers Direct Line has found that over half of the 1,000 drivers surveyed admit to leaving less than a two-second gap between the vehicle in front and themselves. This is an interesting finding given that almost all drivers said that they are concerned about other drivers […]