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Europe makes a basket of new safety requirements into law for new types of motor vehicles comes into force.

Car park prangs cost UK drivers £175 million each year in vehicle damage, according to new research by Accident Exchange.

AA DriveTech is a title sponsor of the forthcoming National Road Safety Conference.

Almost half of motorists believe that traffic stopped at an incident should keep a lane space free for emergency service vehicles, according to the latest poll by the IAM.

Fleets face a raft of health and safety measures, including the investigation of all work-related road incidents, under tough new plans set out by a report funded by police chiefs.

Fines to enforce the new law, which was introduced earlier this year, were due to come into effect on 1st November, but this has now been delayed until March 2013.

Brake, the road safety charity, is launching a new initiative called ‘Ask Brake’, which will provide fleet managers and health and safety professionals with guidance on issues they are experiencing with the safety of their fleets.

The Fuelcard Company warns drivers about the dangers of blindly following sat navs.

The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) is urging drivers to take extra care as the days get darker earlier and for longer when the clocks turn back an hour on Sunday.

A state of the art laser scanner is helping North Yorkshire Police to record essential evidence at the scene of a serious collision and open the county’s roads faster.

Three of the UK’s leading vehicle provenance check providers have joined the free-to-use electronic vehicle safety recall system, ReCare, to help verify the accuracy of recall data in the system.

Cardinus is holding a free-to-attend health and safety forum at its London offices in December to help companies prepare visiting drivers.

A low-cost approved breathalyser kits for drivers planning journeys in France are once again available from Cardinus Risk Management.

The risk of death and serious injury on Britain’s motorways and A roads is highest in Scotland and lowest in West Midlands, according to the Road Safety Foundation’s latest report.

IAM has launched its winter driving campaign this week to help motorists prepare their cars and drive them safely this winter.

BusinessDriver, which provides driver risk management solutions, has re-launched its website.

ATS Euromaster has reaffirmed its commitment to ring-fencing cold weather tyre stocks for businesses and public sector organisations this winter.

Cobra feels that changes to young driver training should be just the start of a complete change in way they are monitored and insured.

Road safety charity the IAM has bought driver training company Professional Driver Services for an undisclosed sum, within days of AA DriveTech buying Peak Performance.

Road safety charity Brake is calling on fleet managers to acknowledge and manage the risks posed by employing people under the age of 25 as professional drivers.

The head of risk management company Cardinus has spoken out about the high number of deaths and injuries on Sussex roads.

UK insurance research centre devises new standards for test procedures and equipment as car manufacturers introduce Autonomous Emergency Braking(AEB) systems.

New figures from British Car Auctions reveal that only 3% of motorists whose vehicles were damaged while parked had been left any contact details from the other party.

Road safety charity Brake has welcomed news that the number of speed cameras is expected to rise.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has welcomed Royal Mail as the latest member of its National Safe Driving Award Scheme (NSDA).

Figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT) confirm that 1,901 people were killed in road accidents in 2011, an increase of 3% on 2010 figures.

RoSPA has issued a call for papers for its Road Safety Seminar 2013, which will examine the potential of new and emerging methods to deliver cost-effective road safety programmes, including social media, black box monitoring and public health initiatives.

The Liberal Democrats have voted overwhelmingly in favour of widespread 20mph limits, and Government investment in this, at their party conference.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed that its cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI), will start on October 1, 2012.

Road safety charity Brake is running a new seminar for fleet professionals called Managing road risk: back to basics. The event takes place on Tuesday October 9, 2012 in London.

As part of this October’s tyre safety month, TyreSafe has launched a pledge on its Facebook page that is designed to help keep drivers safe on the roads this winter.

Kier employees across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are being given the opportunity to undertake a nationally recognised qualification for driving company vehicles.

Pertemps, one of the UK’s largest recruitment agencies, has introduced Jaama’s electronic driver entitlement checking service (EDECS) to verify the licences of 1,200 employees and up to 20,000 agency at-work drivers.

The Daily Star has reported that Prime Minister David Cameron was ‘ready to put the brakes on raising the motorway speed limit to 80mph’ following comments from new Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin that ‘safety is paramount’.

ATS Euromaster is championing wheel security with the release of a specialised training DVD designed to demonstrate the best practice in wheel security.

Drink-driving in the UK remains one of the biggest killers on our roads despite a shift in attitudes over the past 20 years.

54% of UK motorists want volume controls enforced on in-car music to stop it being a driving distraction.

Fleet managers are being encouraged to register now to take part in the UK’s flagship road safety event Road Safety Week from November 19-25, to receive a free Fleet Safety Forum report on speed sponsored by Mix Telematics.

Survey results reveal 85% of respondents said that speed cameras have helped to contribute to the fall in road deaths since 1990s.

Brake is calling for government and local authorities to work towards 20mph being the norm in built-up areas, to help deliver a post-2012 legacy of active, healthy communities.