Industry News
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Company fined £450k in driver fatigue case
Welding company, Renown Consultants Limited, fined £450,000 after two of its fatigued employees died in a car crash and ordered to pay £300,000 in court costs Trainee Zac Payne, 20, and Michael Morris, 48, were killed when their vehicle crashed into a parked lorry in a layby on the A1, Newark, on 19 June 2013.…
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Vehicle licensing statistics for 2019
Department for Transport, April 2020, released its annual vehicle licensing statistics for Great Britain 2019. Key highlights: At the end of 2019, there were 38.7 million licensed vehicles in Great Britain, a 1.3% increase compared to the end of 2018. Cars make up the majority of licensed vehicles. There were 31.9 million cars (82.4%), 4.1…
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Reported drink driving road casualties GB 2018
DfT, February 12th 2020, provisional estimates have been reported on road casualties in Great Britain 2018 involving illegal alcohol levels. It is estimated the number of deaths in accidents with at least one driver over the alcohol limit for 2018 is 240. This represents about 13% of all deaths in reported road accidents in 2018.…
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Reported road casualties 2018 GB
According to the DfT in 2018, there were 1,782 reported road deaths in 2018 similar to the level seen since 2012, which followed a period of substantial reduction in fatalities from 2006 to 2010. View full results: DfT 2018 road causalities report
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Stagecoach fined £2.3m in bus crash case
A bus company has paid a high price for failing to act on numerous warnings about one of its drivers who went on to kill two people in a crash Midland Red, part of the Stagecoach Group, must pay £2.3 million for allowing ‘fatigued’ driver Kailash Chander behind the wheel. The firm also has prosecution…
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Switch off mobile phone before you drive
Switch off before you drive off is our message to motorists to avoid a collision and penalty points on your licence as police crack down on mobile phone use Drivers are 4 times more likely to crash using a mobile, while sat-navs, in-vehicle entertainment systems and handsfree phones are also dangers which distract drivers. Police…
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Half a million road deaths
Motorists are being urged to watch out for pedestrians as the 120th anniversary approaches of the first person in the UK to be killed in a road crash Bridget Driscoll, 44, unfortunately made history when she died on August 17, 1896 after being hit by a new petrol-engined car as she crossed Dolphin Terrace in…
