More than 11,000 new drivers lost their licence last year under the New Drivers Act 1995, according to research by the AA Driving School. The data, obtained by an FOI to the DVSA, shows nearly half of offences by new drivers in 2019, which caused licences to be revoked, were related to insurance. Men were …
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Motorcyclists are most vulnerable to accidents on the road, says Paul Breen, partner & head of catastrophic injury, JMW Solicitors
The number of motorists taking driver awareness courses has tripled since 2010, according to new data. The figures from NDORS (National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme) reveal 1,492,236 people attended and completed driver awareness courses in 2019. Of these, 1,282,698 took speed awareness courses; the rest took part in one of eight other types of course, …
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More than a million drivers have admitted to using their phones behind the wheel on every journey, according to new research. The findings, taken from a report on in-vehicle distraction by road safety charity Brake and insurer Direct Line, revealed that 3% of drivers, equating to 1.2 million drivers across the UK, had a conversation …
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The number of people killed in road accidents where the driver was over the drink drive limit has not dropped since 2010. Provisional figures released by the Department for Transport estimate there were 240 such deaths in 2018, exactly the same rate of fatalities ten years ago. The total number of casualties caused by drink …
It’s important to train ourselves and others in how to drive in adverse weather, says Jim Milton
The average accident costs a driver more than £400, according to new research. A study by price comparison website MoneySuperMarket combined the results of a poll of 2,000 UK drivers with its own data and found that the ‘true cost’ of an accident is £415. That’s almost as much as the average annual insurance premium …
Loss of employment will not automatically be deemed as exceptional hardship under new proposed guidelines for sentencing speeding motorists. Drivers who break the speed limit should no longer be able to avoid a driving ban because it would mean losing their job, under new rules for magistrates in England and Wales proposed by the Sentencing …
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Using a handheld mobile phone while driving could cost drivers £900, according to new research from the AA. Drivers caught using a hand-held phone face having their insurance cover withdrawn or at best, paying nearly three times more at a total of £900 for their annual car premium as opposed to the average ‘clean’ insurance …
Speeding accounts for 17 in every 20 motoring offences, according to figures from the RAC Foundation. The analysis was based on Home Office data, and showed that 84% of all motoring offences related to speeding during 2018-19. In total, the organisation says, 2,386,780 speeding offences were detected in England and Wales over the 12-month period. …
