Careless driving to become fixed penalty offence
by Gill Montia
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The Department for Transport has published a consultation paper which includes a proposal to make careless driving a fixed penalty offence and open to the offer of education training. According to Transport Secretary, Mike Penning, with careless driving, the current enforcement process is time consuming and inefficient and the proposals will provide greater flexibility in [...]
Awareness campaign launch ahead of motor insurance crackdown
by Gill Montia
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The Department for Transport has today launched a national awareness campaign warning motorists that from 20th June, it becomes an offence to keep an uninsured vehicle, rather than just to drive when uninsured. To make sure everyone is aware of change, adverts will be appearing on satellite and terrestrial TV channels. According to Road Safety [...]
New powers to tackle uninsured driving
by Gill Montia
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New powers to tackle uninsured driving will come into force within months, Road Safety Minister, Mike Penning, has announced. The Department for Transport has today made the Commencement Order to make it an offence to be the registered keeper of a vehicle which does not have insurance, with the new rules due to come into [...]
UK road deaths down 14%
by Gill Montia
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The Department for Transport (DfT) has published encouraging statistics on UK road accident casualties for 2008. The number of people killed on Britain’s roads fell by 14%, from 2,946 in 2007 to 2,538 last year. In total there were just under 231,000 road casualties during the year, a fall of 7%. The number of deaths [...]
