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Each month we highlight key issues that affect safety and
congestion on UK motorways.
In addition we provide a host of services and features that make driving a more rewarding and enjoyable experience. We list all the major accidents across the network as well as the main route planners to help you get to your destination quicker. Each month we will bring you the latest news and the most relevant stories for your area.
Together, we believe we can make our road network a safer place.
Latest Features
Transport is now the single biggest area of expense for UK households.
I know, I can’t quite believe it either. In fact I have read the statistics from the RAC over and over again and I still can’t believe it!
Apparently, the single biggest item of household expenditure in the UK is now transport.
Forget the four million households we keep hearing about that spend more than 10% of their income in order to keep warm. That pails into insignificance compared with the 21 million households whic..
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Imagine if ten passenger jets fell out of the sky every day.
Yesterday 3,500 people around the world were violently killed in road accidents.
And the same number died the day before that ..... and the day before that.
Globally, the statistics for road deaths are horrendous. In fact, someone dies in a road accident every six seconds. Yet despite this, road injury and death remains an ignored subject.
Nine out of every ten road accidents are in developing countries and as part of the road saf..
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New technology reduces motorway delays.
 The Department for Transport has announced a revolution in the way motorway accidents are recorded - and for once it is great news for motorists.
Anyone who has ever been stuck on a motorway following an accident will have shouted in desperation “Why don’t you just push all the wreckage onto the hard shoulder and get the traffic flowing?”.
The answer of course is that police need vital information on the position of ..
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Would you fly economy if you thought safety standards had been lowered?
 Last month was a very sad month for UK motorists with one of the worst motorway accidents in the country’s history.
The multiple pile up on the M5 resulted in the death of seven. Safer Motorways have long held the M5 is one of the UK’s most dangerous motorways and we continue to lobby for improvements and safety upgrades. whilst we understand that government spending is being cut back at every opportunity there is clearly a ..
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Will 25 million cars lose their radio in 2015?
 The UK’s “FM Switch off”, current best guess around 2015, could mean that 80% of cars on the roads today would have radios that no longer work.
These cars are known in the industry as ‘legacy cars” and risk being left without any signal when the switch-off finally takes place. That date is rapidly approaching as we enter 2012. There are currently 34 million cars in the UK and with only 2 million being scrapped ..
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£2,000 pothole win could open floodgates
 Potholes in the UK road network now cost UK drivers over £500 million pounds a year.
That’s not a typo - five hundred million pounds.
You could be forgiven for thinking the council workers who reject the endless flow of claims from disgruntled motorists are running a chain of tyre depots across the country. If you haven’t suffered damage to your own wheels or tyres from potholes yourself, then I am sure you know some..
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