With one-third of all road crashes still involving vehicles driven on business road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has produced a short video highlighting the issue. Every day around 150 vehicles driven on business crash, and each year there are 14,000 road deaths and serious injuries in involving people at work. IAM RoadSmart is dedicated to reducing these … [Read more...]
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Welsh local roads are in terminal decline
Within the next five years almost one in five local roads in Wales will need to be repaired reports this year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey, published today. The cumulative effect of an ageing network, decades of underfunding, increased traffic and wetter winters has led to around 18 per cent of all Welsh local roads reported as being … [Read more...]
Welsh are worst tailgaters, survey
Drivers in Wales are Britain’s worst tailgaters. Welsh police recorded more offences than in any other region, and nine in 10 drivers said they were victims of offenders, the worst on motorways. According to Freedom of Information data obtained by Confused.com, 129 prosecutions for tailgating were recorded by police in Wales since ‘careless driving’ … [Read more...]
Newslines 24 March
Double-digit growth in demand for British-built cars last month helped deliver the biggest February for UK car production in 17 years, said the SMMT. UK production lines turned out one car every 16 seconds in the month, with total output of 153,041 up 8.0%, as exports grew 13.4% to 118,898 units. The performance helped to drive overall year-to-date … [Read more...]
Parents back toughter law for young drivers, says insurer
Parents of young drivers would back additional tougher driving laws designed to reduce the high human and financial cost of road accidents involving young and newly qualified drivers, new research has found. On the 1 March, higher penalties for using a mobile phone while driving were introduced for all motorists and last year in Wales, 2.5% of drivers … [Read more...]
Plug-in tech makes car ownership less taxing
The number of vehicles clamped or impounded for non-payment of road tax peaked at more than 12,200 a month last summer, over double the number recorded prior to the abolition of paper tax discs. With just one postal reminder from the DVLA, many motorists who relied on the disc as a reminder of the renewal date are being penalised unfairly due to … [Read more...]
Budget 2017 – what it means to you
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget speech today. It was also the final spring Budget as Mr Hammond announced in last November’s Autumn Statement a rescheduling of the two major fiscal-related announcements of the Parliamentary year. Starting in the autumn, Britain will have an Autumn Budget announcing tax changes … [Read more...]
Newslines 3 March
After two months of rises at the pumps, the price of petrol and diesel stabilised in February, according to RAC Fuel Watch data. In Wales, diesel dipped by 12p a litre while unleaded rose 9ppl and nationally unleaded finished the month at 120.23p a litre, a very slight increase on the figure of 120.05p seen on 1 February, and diesel at 122.25p, having … [Read more...]
Motorists facing higher compensation premiums
Average car insurance premiums could increase by up to £75 a year as a result of a government ruling, industry experts have said. A new formula for calculating compensation payments for those who suffer long-term injuries has been announced by the Ministry of Justice, but the Association of British Insurers (ABI) called the decision "crazy". The … [Read more...]
Write-offs and your rights explained
The Financial Ombudsman regularly deals with complaints from people who believe that their insurer has not properly valued their car after it has been damaged to the extent that its insurer decides it is a ‘write-off' and uneconomical to repair. Typically, cars are considered to be a total write-off when they have been so severely damaged that they cannot … [Read more...]
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