Posted: September 2, 2011
Mac GB Ltd welcomes the 6% reduction in reported injury road traffic collisions for 2010, these are down to 208,655 compared with 2009. This downward trend continued with those killed or seriously injured (KSI), down 9% to 24,517. The average number of KSI’s annually during the period from 1994 to 1998 was 47,656 which puts the latest figures into perspective. Of more significance was the 16% reduction in fatalities, down from 2,222 to 1,857. This is the lowest since records began in 1926.
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Posted: May 11, 2011
UK businesses that fail to manage their commercial fleet records properly are being warned they risk being hit by fines totalling more than £2 million pounds this year. Continue Reading…
Posted: May 11, 2011
Plans to improve road safety education while taking tough action against the small minority of dangerous drivers were set out by Transport Secretary Philip Hammond today.
Careless driving will be made a fixed penalty offence to allow the police more effectively to tackle reckless driving that puts other road users in danger, while disqualified drivers face having to take a new test before regaining their licence.
There will also be more educational courses that can be offered in place of a fixed penalty and points in appropriate cases as well as a new post-test qualification for novice drivers, under plans set out in the new Strategic Framework for Road Safety.
And as new analysis shows, 3,500 deaths and serious injuries could have been prevented in a year if the successes of better local authorities and police forces had been matched across the country. Local people will be given the information they need to have a real say in road safety priorities on their local roads. Continue Reading…
Posted: March 21, 2011
A package of measures to tackle drink and drug driving was announced today by Transport Secretary Philip Hammond.
Improved testing equipment to detect drink and drug drivers will be given the green light and key changes made to streamline enforcement of both offences.
The government will also examine the case for a new specific drug driving offence – alongside the existing one – which would remove the need for the police to prove impairment on a case-by-case basis where a specified drug has been detected. Continue Reading…
Posted: March 9, 2011
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings has today become the first company to be convicted of the new offence of corporate manslaughter.
Alex Wright was 27-years-old when he died on 5 September 2008. He was a geologist for Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings and was investigating soil conditions in a deep trench on a development plot in Stroud when it collapsed and killed him.
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