Drivers who use mobile phones at the wheel are increasingly going unpunished despite a sharp rise in the numbers flouting the law, official figures suggest. The number of on-the-spot fines handed out to people caught using a hand held mobile phone while driving has fallen for the third year in a row, according to figures [...]
A learner driver taking her second lesson managed to flip her instructor’s car on to its roof in Oxford.
The woman, in her mid-20s, hit a gatepost on Old Road in Headington, causing the Fiat 500 car owned by driving instruction firm BSM to flip.
Paramedics treated the woman and the instructor for cuts to their hands and elbows at the scene of Sunday’s crash.
A councillor demolished six graves in a cemetery by driving over them in her car when her foot slipped on the accelerator.
The Department for Transport has said only people granted permission to stay in the country for 185 days or more will now be eligible to take a test.
Abu-Haris Shafi, the director of Britain’s largest driving school, has avoided a car ban despite ‘totting up’ 17 points.
You’ve just got to admire this kind of tenacity. This 68-year-old woman wanted her driver’s license so badly that she had gone to take the written test nearly every single day since April of 2005.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is asking its members to take strike action on Monday and Tuesday, 8 and 9 March.
Thousands of children – some as young as 11 – are enrolling for driving lessons at a growing number of specialist centres, but the trend has police and safety groups concerned.
This Highway Code applies to England, Scotland and Wales. The Highway Code is essential reading for everyone.
The most vulnerable road users are pedestrians, particularly children, older or disabled people, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. It is important that all road users are aware of the Code and are considerate towards each other. This applies to pedestrians as much as to drivers and riders.
Some general advice from The Driving Instructors Association on how to take care during the winter conditions.