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A week-long speed enforcement operation, co-ordinated by the European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL) and supported by 27 countries across Europe, begins today.

IAM chief executive Simon Best said: “It is unacceptable that road deaths and serious injuries have risen for children, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.

The Department for Transport has published the first quarter reported road casualties of 2012.

The Association of British Drivers (ABD) deplores the call by some Liberal Democrats to impose a 20-mph speed limit in all residential areas, effectively replacing the 30 limit by 20.

The free-to-use electronic vehicle safety recall system, ReCare, established by Ebbon-Dacs in conjunction with the BVRLA, is set to go live next month after meeting all its major deadlines.

Minimising maintenance and repair downtime is a growing concern for fleets looking to maximise the productivity of their company cars and vans, according to epyx.

More than 220 team members in North Tyneside and East Durham will be taking part in the training to achieve a nationally recognised qualification for driving company vehicles.

Speed continues to be one of the biggest killers on roads in the UK and through its annual campaign, Road Safety Week, Brake is asking drivers to slow down in communities.

An influential House of Commons committee has lambasted the Government for a lack of leadership on road safety. Statistics from the Department for Transport have revealed an increase in people killed and seriously injured on British roads for the first time in 17 years.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in Scotland has welcomed a reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured at safety camera sites following camera enforcement, but is concerned that some drivers are still not heeding the safety messages at 40, 50 and 60mph locations.

Philip Somarakis, head of motoring offences team at Davenport Lyons and company secretary of ACFO, on proposed changes to rural speed limits.

Armed forces support services provider “strongly recommends” RAC Risk Management for business risk reduction and health and safety improvements.

Greg Mulholland, MP for North West Leeds, has been awarded a Road Safety Award by the charity Brake and Direct Line for his work campaigning for automatic licence suspension for drivers who have killed or are caught at twice the drink-drive limit.

Around 130 million Europeans have planned a holiday in another European Union country this year.

Cash-strapped fleets face a dilemma on licence checking when the paper-based counterpart is dropped in 2014 or 2015. One option could add thousands of pounds to their company’s bottom line; the other is a health and safety risk.

IAM chief executive Simon Best welcomes the latest report from the Select Committee.

Recent increases in road fatalities should be a wake-up call for Government to step up and provide stronger leadership on road safety, say MPs in a report examining the Government's Strategic Framework for Road Safety.

G2M Technologies has launched a new system aimed at reducing road deaths caused by company drivers using their phones while at the wheel.

FMG has been announced as the winner of the risk management award for its Ingenium Dynamics advanced driver behaviour management system at this year’s British Insurance Awards .

Cardinus says companies must be better prepared following MP’s call for better reporting of driving at work deaths.

Figures released by the Department for Transport showing an increase in the number of deaths and serious injuries on Britain’s roads could be masking a far worse situation, according to Cardinus Risk Management.

Seventeen fleets using Virtual Risk Manager (VRM) have saved more than £11 million in direct costs, according to the Fleet Safety Benchmarking Forum.

Brake is encouraging organisations to start planning now how they will take advantage of the event to promote safe driving to staff and show their commitment to road safety in the wider community.

The use of driver safety aids by fleets could cut the number of accidents their vehicles are involved in, according to new research.

Fifty councils in England saw more than a ten per cent increase in killed and seriously injured (KSI) crash rates between 2010 and 2011, according to IAM analysis of the new road accident figures.

New research reveals that four million motorists have suffered from ‘dashboard denial’ in the last year, ignoring a warning light for five days or more.

An appeal to government to use increasing motoring fines to step up support for suffering road crash victims is being launched today by the charity Brake.

With the UK suffering its wettest second quarter since records began in 1910, the need for adequate tyre tread to stay safe on wet roads all year round is more important than ever, says TyreSafe.

Fleet training supplier E-Training World will be launching a new, expanded, range of online driver and rider risk assessments this autumn.

More than a quarter of drivers have been in an accident on their way to work and nearly a third have had a near miss in the last year, according to a web poll from IAM Drive & Survive.

The charity Brake is calling on the government to give far greater priority to preventing road casualties and making communities safer, as government statistics reveal an increase in people killed and seriously injured on British roads for the first time in 17 years.

A further £15m funding to tackle dangerous junctions for cyclists across the country was announced today by transport ministers Norman Baker and Mike Penning.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in Scotland has teamed up with MyDrive Solutions, an insurance telematics specialist, to launch a pilot project using telematic devices (black boxes) to monitor the at-work driving of young people.

Pennine Magpie Limited has chosen Cardinus Risk Management and insurance company Wilby to supply a driving at work policy and company handbook for its fleet safety programme.

Total Accident Management and TR Fleet are hosting a risk management seminar on July 6 at the BMW Group Plant in Oxford to help fleet managers and employers understand how the law around company fleets is changing and to highlight the benefits of effectively identifying and managing their risk.

Research has shown that agency drivers are more prone to be involved in collisions and with 42% of UK companies using temporary staff as drivers it is a key safety issue fleet managers need to address.

Business drivers have collision rates that are 30–40% higher than those of private drivers, research suggests.

Driver training needs a complete overhaul in order to tackle the real issue at the centre of accidents: behaviour.

Business drivers see speeding as a lesser crime than their private motoring counterparts, according to a new study.

One-third of companies do not have a minimum age restriction on driving for work, while one-fifth don’t have a policy for young drivers.