Parents want to see the school curriculum looking at road safety according to surveys. Four in ten parents with children aged between seven and thirteen want the schools to teach their children to use roads safely.

Over half of the parents asked, feel their local roads are not safe enough for their children to walk alone to school.  With a third of parents saying reasons were because of traffic and public transport, with other parents simply suggesting they didn’t feel their children were old enough.

Interestingly, nearly half (47%) of parents felt that the primary responsibility for teaching their children about road safety lies with the school or UK government. However, hopefully parents will see that although the schools should have an input, they need to step up and take responsibility themselves, ensuring their children can cross a road safely as soon as their children can walk (which is often before they even start at primary school).

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Richard Cwierzona, a DSA examiner from Barnet Driving Test Centre appeared in court for taking bribes in return for test passes.

The 49 year old has been sacked by the DSA and jailed for two and a half years after it came to light.

Police estimate he has made in excess of £4,500 and nearly 40 drivers have since had their licences revoked following the investigation. However, police are concerned of how many other drivers have licences issued wrongly by Mr Cwierzona.

Judge Juliet May said: “It was always you who solicited the bribes, never the other way round. You abused the trust the public have in the system over many years.”

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Dean Wilson’s son Matthew aged just 21 years old was killed two years ago when his car hit a tree. Mr Wilson and his daughter Hannah want to raise awareness of drink-driving as this was one of the factors that lead to Matthew’s accident.

The drink-drive campaign this Christmas will target younger drivers, as figures show 20-24 year olds failed more breath tests than any other group.

By using the actual car Matthew was killed in as an emotive tool to show people the effects of drink driving, they hope that the shocking image will help to promote safer driving and encourage people to think before they drink drive.

The dangerous mixture of thinking you are in control and feeling fine but having drunk alcohol, increases the chance of risk taking, can cause blurriness and make what is already considered a difficult task more difficult.

People of all ages tend to drink exceptionally more over the Christmas period and people that may not normally drink will have a tipple of two to celebrate.

Police urge drivers to be vigilant and plan how you are getting home when out on Christmas dos. It is also important that drivers are aware of their blood alcohol levels the morning after too.

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The drive to work in the morning whether it be to work or to drop the children off at school, is important for how we feel the rest of the day.

If we get off to a terrible start is sometimes has an effect on the rest of our day. Apart from trying to keep your cool when someone cuts you up or pulls over into your lane, what can you do?

I suggest having some good audio going on the in background. Now, I’m not saying that you have to start playing some Deepak Chopra –though he is very good! –but I find that listening to some relaxing music first thing in the morning helps. This could be audio book, some soothing music or a talk on Radio 4.

It’s important to be alert but relaxed when you are in the car and starting off your day in this fashion always, I find, helps. This doesn’t of course excuse poor driving. But when you are relaxed and prepared, you won’t let someone’s poor driving ruin you day.

One hundred and five times…over £3000 and still no closer to passing the theory test. The DSA have revealed information regarding an Essex resident who has sat her theory test an astonishing 105 times.

She is the clear winner on the number of tests sat, with her closest rival only sitting the test 84 times.

Despite the cost and heartache she must feel after each fail, she is one determined women and here’s hoping she is lucky on the 106th try.

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With Christmas upon us the Christmas parties have all started.

This gives us all the time to catch up with friends and family. To ask them how their year has been and what their plans are for Christmas and indeed the next 12 months.

It is also of course, the time of year when the alcohol comes out. The wine is flowing and the champagne is popped. We’ve spent a year working hard after all!

Unfortunately, this also means that many people are tempted to drive whilst over the limit. Which of course, should never happen. If you are going to a party with a group of friends try and arrange it so that one person is driving, or arrange to get a taxi back home. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

If you are planning a big party let people know well ahead so they book transportation. It may be worth calling a taxi company ahead of time and letting them know how many people will be needing a lift.

We hope your enjoy your Christmas parties!

Secret agent 007 went undercover to obtain his driving licence in America. He might have a licence to kill but he didn’t have a licence to drive there legally.

After him and his family moved to Manhattan, New York he was required to take driving lessons to obtain a legal motorist’s licence.

Everybody, no matter who you are must pass a road safety test, a pre-licencing driving safety course and take a written exam as part of American road laws.

He did use his 007 powers to get a bit of special treatment, getting his assistant to request a private class with no other students. And luckily, he passed his test with flying colours.

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Car parking spaces on supermarket car parks seem so small. Especially when you drive anything bigger than a Peugeot 206. Getting in and out of these tight parking spaces can seem like a complete nightmare. Especially when the car park is particularly busy and you have someone waiting for you to come out so that they can pull-in.

The best way to prepare for these situations is to practice. When you go to a supermarket and it is quiet, practice your bay parking. Go to a part of the car park where it is quiet and imagine that you will be parking between two cars. Think about how you need to pull-in and how much space you need to leave on either side.

You should try reverse parking too. Some people find this easier. Again, practice makes perfect so keep trying.

With the cost of petrol uncertain and the recession hitting drivers hard, we need to look at ways of being more fuel efficient.

A survey by Shell found that a third of drivers admit to carrying more than five things in their car boot at all times. Hoarding items in the car unnecessarily will add to the weight of the car and ultimately waste more petrol.

So why not leave the kids at home next time you take a trip in the car!?

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We all love taking pictures. It may not be pictures of ourselves–though there’s nothing wrong in that–it could be pictures of a beautiful landscape, the light blue ocean or the most dazzling sunset. Oh, and of course, we like to take pictures of our cars. Again, there’s nothing wrong in that.

But when do you take the pictures of your car. Do you take pictures when you are outside of the car? Do you take the passengers when you are in the passenger seat? Or, is it when you’re driving?

Taking pictures when driving is as bad as using your phone when driving. Please don’t.

With the emergence of social media we are all keen to share things with others. One things is our driving experiences, and one of the ways people are doing this is taking videos or pictures whilst driving.

There are any number of people doing this such as, the England cricketer Craig Kieswetter who took a picture of himself driving at 90mph and then uploaded it on twitter. In another case, a driver took a video of himself driving over 120mph and uploaded it onto YouTube.

Just remember that when you are driving be safe, don’t use your phone.