It’s one of the main causes of thousands of road accidents every year. Being a safe driver means being alert – and if you’re not, you are consequently putting your safety and the safety of others at risk. If you have trouble focusing, have poor judgement and slower reaction time, how do you think you […]

With the news today of former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos being banned from driving for 15 months for drink-driving, we can’t help but feel that the image of drink-driving is not being recognised as the deadly activity it should be to many. The drink-drive limit in the UK is 80 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 […]

Motorists checking Facebook and updating Twitter are seen as a bigger menace than drink-drivers, according to new research. Distracted drivers using social media services like Facebook and Twitter are now seen as a great threat to road safety than drink-driving. This is according to startling research published by the Institute of Advanced Motorists in its […]

Two-thirds of motorists who drive after drinking alcohol would not have drink at all if the drink-driving limit was reduced, according to a survey. The Populus survey findings have prompted alcohol and public health campaigners to urge minister to impose Scotland’s lower limit across the rest of the UK. The legal blood-alcohol limit in England, […]

A new test has been developed that tests your reaction age. The online game gives you a driving age from 18 to ‘a very, very old person’ based on your ability to perform an emergency stop. The game was created by London-based start-up Justpark.com, which matches drivers with spare car parking spaces. It places a […]

Finally being able to drive your own car can be an exciting prospect for many – For this reason, many newly qualified drivers are those who have taken their lessons and passed their test as soon as they possibly could, meaning that they are around the age of 17 or 18 in many cases. Whilst […]

A man accused of drunk-driving after leading police on a high-speed chase explained to an officer that it was his dog, and not him, who had been driving the vehicle. Reliford Cooper III, 26, blamed the pooch after his car had crashed into a ditch following the chase in Palmetto, Florida – allegedly telling an […]

A learner driver was found to be over the alcohol limit after police followed him. Richard Parfitt was seen driving alone, slowly without lights in Poulton in Blackpool. Parfitt, 32, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol without insurance and not in accordance with his provisional licence. He was banned from the road for 18 […]

Two men allegedly two times over the legal drink drive limit were a learner and his supervisor, police said. Officers tracked down learner Lucas Herliczka, 39, in a Vauxhall Corsa after police were called about a road traffic incident. He was arrested with his ‘acquaintance’ who was supervising in Southampton. The legal limit is 35mg […]

More than 300 people have tested positive for drink-driving in a month-long crackdown by Wales’ four police forces: North Wales Police, Gwent Police, Dyfed-Powys Police and South Wales Police. Police carried out more than 12,000 breath tests during the June campaign. In North Wales, a 36-year-old woman from Hollywell, Flintshire was arrested after a reading […]