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Making all country lanes safer

[02 Mar 2012]

Rural roads are more dangerous than they should be. Major rural roads are often not built wide enough to comfortably accommodate motorised ...

Child Killer Cars

[24 May 2011]

The car buying public has been gradually getting conned into a size war on the roads. At the same time as advertising how green things are ...

British Road Fatalities Mapped Out

[19 Nov 2011]

ITO World has compiled a zoomable, browsable map of fatalities and casualties on Britain's roads, during the first decade of the 21st century ...

Faster Motorway Speeds: Who Cares?

[02 Oct 2011]

A Government announcement last week (Thursday 29 September 2011) to consult on raising the UK's motorway speed limit from 70mph to 80mph had ...

Video Display for Driver? Can't be Safe!

[27 May 2011]

Toyota is going for gadgets with its new Prius, and we're talking smartphone gadgets here. The idea is that you will be able to use your phone ...

Hands-free Phone doesn't mean Both Hands off the Wheel!

[06 May 2011]

I recently had the misfortune to witness an Environment Agency employee driving along, in an Environment Agency truck, playing with his phone ...

Road Rage at Critical Mass

[08 Feb 2008]

There is a report of a road rage incident during a Critical Mass gathering of cyclists. Apparently a car driver decided to ram a cyclist who ...

Auto-dimming of Headlights

[05 Feb 2008]

Electronics Weekly has published a story about automatically switching headlight brightness between low and high beam. It is based on the presumption ...

Road Rage - BBC1

[07 Jan 2008]

On BBC One tonight, London road rage is in the spotlight. It features 4x4 hating and angry 4x4 drivers, cyclists who won't stop at pedestrian ...

Possible Change in Rural Speed Limits?

[07 Jan 2008]

ITV's Alastair Stewart on Police, Camera, Action! reports that the Government is considering reducing the default speeds on rural roads. Instead ...

TrafficTV: TrafficMaster on Your Mobile

[23 Dec 2007]

TrafficTV (http://www.traffictv.co.uk/) is a system that provides trafficmaster data to your mobile phone. Clearly this means that you need ...

Mobile phone driving jail threat

[20 Dec 2007]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7153070.stm Motorists caught driving dangerously while using a mobile phone face being sent to jail ...

Petition against all people who have signed the "scrap speed cameras" petition

[10 Dec 2007]

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BanSpeeders/ This petition is against the petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scrapcam. Sounds good to me! Speed ...

Aggressive Driving: Proving a Point

[27 Nov 2007]

Drivers may not pay attention while driving, or may not realise that they are driving too fast, and this is bad enough. What makes drivers ...

BBC Cycling Quiz

[26 Mar 2007]

You think you know it all when it comes to cycling on Britain's roads? Well, try this BBC Cycling Quiz to really test your knowledge and ...