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Calls for drivers to be prosecuted for exceeding the speed limit by as little as 1mph have been criticised by motoring groups.

Police mobile camera vans are being used by more than a third of police forces to prosecute drivers for not wearing a seatbelt or using a handheld mobile phone.

Citroen has made Active City Brake standard on top spec Flair models of the new C3 Aircross, which costs from £16, 990.

Brake has named the date for its annual Fleet Safety Conference, held at the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre on May 25.

Intelligent cat’s eyes, which light up in response to changing traffic lights, are to be used for the first time at a motorway junction.

Officers stopped almost 100,000 vehicles during its Christmas drink and drug-driving crackdown, with a 3.9% year-on-year increase in arrests, reports the NPCC.

The Government has launched a consultation on proposals to allow drivers to report accidents online, rather than in person at a police station.

Fleet operators could face a rise in daily rental prices this year as experts warn that insurance costs will increase in response to terror attack pay-outs.

Telford-based TTC Group is investing more than £500,000 into a new suite of services to help SMEs manage work-related road safety.

Safety technology designed to avoid crashes helped the Volvo XC60 win the What Car? Safety Award, while the diesel XC40 was named What Car? Car of the Year.

Two thirds of drivers (65%) don’t believe they will be prosecuted for offences such as tailgating and lane hogging due to a lack of police on UK roads.

However, the road safety charity Brake says the problem can only be tackled through a “long-term police enforcement effort”.

Lewisham Council has been found guilty and fined after a visitor fell into a vehicle inspection pit at their Wearside Service Centre in Ladywell.

Systems that mitigate driver errors and prevent accidents are now available on almost seven in 10 new cars, according to the SMMT and JATO Dynamics.

Road safety charity Brake is calling on fleet operators to crack down on driver distraction after finding that more than a third of fleets do not monitor the safety risk.

Five lucky drivers across the UK will get the chance to earn £5 every week during 2018 with Lightfoot.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has decided to maintain the first MoT at three years, rather than four years, due to safety concerns.

Isotrack Group has acquired AlcoLock GB, a leading supplier of breathalyser immobilisation systems to the commercial vehicle sector.

West Yorkshire has been revealed as the UK region which issued the most speeding tickets during 2017, following research by car leasing specialist UK Carline.

More than 1.4 million drivers, including more than one million caught for speeding, were sent to offender retraining courses in 2017 by the police.

Michelin and Kwik Fit technicians have found that 40% of cars they checked had at least one tyre that was “dangerously” or “very dangerously” underinflated.

Nearly a quarter of a million vehicles were broken into in 2016, according to data seen by RAC Insurance.

Euro NCAP has outlined the safest cars it tested in 2017, from almost 70 models assessed in a record year for new model launches.

Research into crashes involving young drivers has concluded that they need to learn more quickly about how to avoid crashes with vulnerable users.

By Chris McClellan chief executive at RAM Tracking

DVLA figures show more than 6,000 motorists have at least two endorsements on their licence for driving while distracted, including using a handheld phone.

Four in five drivers (82%) say they have been tailgated while a third (32%) admit to hogging the middle lane, research from Confused.com shows.

Mobileye director Gil Ayalon believes governments, insurers and fleets have major parts to play in the uptake of safety systems.

Taxi and bus drivers have some of the smallest numbers of drink driving convictions compared to construction workers, research from MoneySuperMarket reveals.

Government plans to install fibre optic cables under motorways which will beam traffic information to suitably-equipped cars and vans.

Credit hire services provider Edam Group has used advanced simulators to highlight the risks of driving while distracted or under the influence of alcohol to its employees.

A principal contractor and a road building sub-contractor have been fined after a worker was fatally struck while working on roadworks near Lidgate in Suffolk.

The AA is calling on fleet managers and business owners to ensure they have a robust road safety policy.

Mental health is the next key area where fleets should look make improvements in the health and safety of drivers, says FleetCheck.

The AA has written to Road Safety Minister Jesse Norman MP to seek “life-saving changes” to the Highway Code.

Enforcement of new, tougher laws on illegal mobile phone use at the wheel stalled just one month after their introduction, according to figures obtained by Brake.

Almost seven in 10 (67%) UK motorists want the English/Welsh drink-drive limit reduced, after the Government’s deliberation over drink-driving.

Thatcham Research had outlined the top ten cars in the running for the What Car? Safety Award 2018.

Euro NCAP has awarded the Fiat Punto a revised zero-star rating in its latest crash test results.

Volvo Cars will from today start developing its autonomous drive cars with help from Swedish families who will test its XC90 on the public roads of Gothenburg.