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‘Crash for Cash’ fraudsters are costing nearly £400 million every year, according to a new report published by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB).

Motorists and hauliers will benefit from increased capacity on England's motorways by spring 2015 thanks to the acceleration of three upgrades, transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced.

Cardinus Risk Management is adding a new tool that measures the overall safety climate within an organisation, to its product portfolio.

Drivers are at risk on 40% of Britain’s roads due to fading road markings in austerity Britain, claims Jim Fitzpatrick, shadow road safety minister.

Risk management programmes are a vital step in reducing accidents, but improving driver safety requires continuous attention.

Improved driving standards benefit the bottom line.

Telsis has chosen national Road Safety Week to partner with road safety charity Brake and to launch a new system that could enable fleet managers to enforce phone use policy.

Four in 10 motorists would never consider using a driver-less car, according to the IAM's latest poll. Furthermore, 65% of people are sceptical as to whether or not driver-less technology is actually a good idea.

For a business thriving on repairing damaged cars, the last warning you would expect to hear is one urging motorists to take extra precautions to ensure safer motoring this winter.

Two more fleet operators, Alphabet and Tusker, have signed up to use the BVRLA’s free-to-use ReCare safety recall scheme.

Zenith’s in-house accident management team has processed its 100,000th claim.

Fleets are being urged to get involved in a week-long national road safety campaign which is launched today (Monday, November 19). Brake, the road safety charity, is appealing to drivers to slow down to 20mph around homes, schools and shops, and calling for 20mph limits in built-up areas.

A call for driver risk assessments to be transferred from one employer to another has come from Jonathan Mosley, director of sales and marketing at E-Training World.

The final countdown has begun for companies seeking to win RoSPA's acclaimed Management of Occupational Road Risk (MORR) Awards.

A leading academic has questioned the role of the police in work-related road safety after a report recommended developing a mandatory national standard.

Research reveals one in three UK drivers is putting themselves and other road users at risk by not meeting the legal vision standard for driving.

Vans which are not properly maintained pose a hazard to drivers and pedestrians.

The use of speed limiters and Government action over fuel prices head most operators' wish lists.

Craig Budsworth, the new chair of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS)– a non-profit making national association of solicitors who specialise in representing road traffic accident victims, has announced plans for a Motor Claims Code.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has welcomed the announcement from the Department for Transport (DfT) that it will be consulting on the speed limit for Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) over 7.5 tonnes on single carriageway roads.

The South East of England has seen less improvement in its road safety than any other region in England, according to IAM’s analysis of recent data produced by the Department for Transport.

Road safety charity Brake is inviting fleet operators and suppliers to enter and attend its annual fleet safety conference and awards.

Speed limiters were developed primarily to improve safety. But controlling the top speed of commercial vehicles has also cut the amount of fuel used.

Autonomous emergency braking offered as an option on latest version of the Ford Fiesta.

Trimble has announced that it has released new enhancements to the Trimble GeoManager Driver Safety solution, allowing field service organisations to more easily manage and communicate behaviours that influence driver and vehicle safety.

Occupational road risk management standards are being driven up by a new focus on ‘responsible procurement’.

A report commissioned by insurer RSA, has found that road crashes caused by poor driver vision result in an estimated 2,900 casualties and cost £33 million per year.

The number of deaths and serious injuries of vehicle occupants fell by 5% in the year ending June 2012, compared with the previous 12 months, according to the latest Department for Transport (DfT) statistics.

Driver training specialist IAM Drive & Survive is offering weekly motoring tips to drivers from its head of training, Simon Elstow.

Fleet managers are being urged to revisit company policies on drink-driving in response to a rise in fatalities.

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.