Amid concerns from victims’ families that some offenders get off too lightly, the Prime Minister has ordered the Sentencing Council to review current guidelines for motoring offences including causing death by dangerous driving. An increase in the severity of sentencing for serious driving related offences has, for me, been a long time in coming. Campaigners have […]
A joint poll by road safety charity Brake and insurance company Direct Line has revealed some worrying findings. The poll has found that many drivers are taking risks whilst on the roads, fuelled through both overconfidence in their own ability, and general complacency behind the wheel. With as many as 69% of drivers polled admitting to […]
I commented in a recent post about the term ‘hero’ being thrown around too easily nowadays. In that post I highlighted the actions of a brave trucker who took it upon himself to stop a runaway car. Well, hot on the heels of that positive, heart-warming post, I have come across another similar story of […]
A learner driver had a lucky escape when a hit-and-run driver smashed into the tuition vehicle – while the driving test was taking place. The female student, who has not been named, was driving around a roundabout in Brackenhall, West Yorkshire, when the incident happened during the early morning rush-hour test. Fortunately the student driver was […]
You can drive down any residential area in the country and see a house with a common four-door hatch-back parked outside of it: nothing at all unusual there I hear you say… However, on one certain Cambridgeshire street, this common, everyday sight is interrupted by the presence of a 21ft long, World War One army […]
News reaches us that Cabinet Ministers are to bar people from taking the driving test in a foreign language amid concerns that they cannot read road signs in English. Hot on the heels of recent news articles concerning the apparent growing levels of fraud discovered of late, whereby driving licences have had to been revoked after […]
The term ‘hero’ is a one which is thrown around far too frequently nowadays in my opinion. However, the actions of someone of whom can be considered as a true hero are highlighted in an news article I have stumbled upon in The Daily Mail. When truck driver and Father-of-four Bob Rennie, 46, found himself following […]
Hot on the heels of my post yesterday concerning a motorist driving with the bonnet of his vehicle up (*shakes head*), such acts of driving madness, it seems, are not isolated. An article on ‘This Is Hampshire.Net’ has reported a story about a motorist spotted having a shave while driving! That’s right people: Having a […]
What was this person thinking?!? A man has been spotted on a 50mph stretch of busy dual carriageway in Hampshire with what appeared to be a battery charger (it was more likely to be a portable battery jump-start pack TBH) still attached to his car! Now then, I’ve witnessed some crazy things on the roads […]
Results of a survey by insurance comparison site Confused.com have suggested that if you want to drive safely, then you should leave your other half at home! That’s right people, more than a third of motorists said that their partner or spouse was the most distracting passenger to travel with, which they felt increased their chances […]