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Drivers will be making 28 million festive car journeys on major roads this year – but there could be fewer traffic jams as they plan to spread them over several days, new data suggests. Research by the RAC Traffic Watch states that Christmas Eve will be the busiest day on the roads with 3.8m journeys planned. Both […]

The amount of drivers that have had their cars clamped as they have failed to pay their car tax has doubled since the old paper car tax disc was made redundant two years ago. Data from BBC News via a Freedom Of Information Request shows that there are now more than 9,000 wheel clampings taking […]

A leading transport minister has made a bid to look into banning motorists with multiple convictions on their licence from using high-powered cars. Andrew Jones the MP stated that he would push forward the proposal first voiced by the DUP’s Jim Shannon. This would mean it would ban drivers that have multiple convictions from hiring […]

Car insurance companies are calling for car manufacturers to show who was at fault in an accident involving a driverless car. The association of British insurers states that drivers need to be able to prove that they are not the one at fault if the vehicle’s technology were to fail. They want to collect data […]

The Government now has an eight-month deadline to come up with a proposal to tackle harmful air pollutants. A high court judge in London has ruled that their original and current plan is inadequate and must be improved upon. Limits for nitrogen dioxide (N02) were brought in by EU law in 1999, and were to […]

Theresa May will at the beginning of November face a call for tougher penalties for drink-drivers who kill other rmotorists on the road. Two bereaved families will hand in petitions to 10 Downing Street demanding a change in the sentencing guidelines covering drink-drive killers. There appears to be public support for such a move. In July, the road safety […]

Data shows that the number of fined driver caught using a mobile behind the wheel has dropped a massive 86% within the last five years. Figures from the Home Office show nearly 17,000 car drivers in the UK were handed a fixed penalty for using a mobile phone at the wheel last year compared to 123,000 […]

Up to a fifth of new cars on the road in the UK are deemed to be pre registered cars. This is a legal practice but often termed the ‘secret of the car industry’, as a report conducted by Radio 4 has found. The SMMT (The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) state that the […]

A new report has shown a worrying shift in mobile phone use behind the wheel. The RAC has conducted a report into motoring in 2016 and it shows that back in 2014 the number of drivers who admitted to using a mobile phone whilst driving was 8%. Fast forward to two years later and that […]

Kia has predicted with extensive research that by the year 2041, more than half of the cars on the UK’s roads will be driverless. Tye also added that it predicts that the amount of cars on the road that will be able to communicate with each other will be a huge 8 million. Not just […]