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LED lighting is the go-to for new cars. And unsurprisingly, drivers of existing models want a slice of the action with brighter lights and greater visibility. But adding LED bulbs…
We’re not sure why you might not want to wear a seat belt. After all, they are designed to save your life if you have a crash. As a consequence,…
The answer is yes and no. The government introduced the law outlawing using handheld mobile phones at the wheel in 2003. This was before smartphones were a feature of people’s…
The CRIT’Air scheme has been designed to reduce pollution in city centres around France. The idea is that all vehicles should display a CRIT’Air car windscreen sticker (the French call…
Not so long ago, the law was changed to increase the punishment for driving with a hand-held mobile phone. Now there’s a lot of noise being made about the government…
Being stopped by the police is a by-product of life as a driver. Some people may never have been pulled over, others will have been stopped multiple times. How you…
Parking tickets are one of the hazards of modern motoring. But if you’re given one and you think it was in error, you can appeal them. And experts reckon there’s…
There are some very definite dos and don’ts when you have a car crash. Usually our image of a crash is like that above, which thankfully is far more dramatic…
With more drivers than ever using their mobile phone as a sat nav and harsher penalties for drivers using hand-held devices, it makes sense to get a mobile phone mount.…
The UK is the envy of most of the rest of the world for its road safety record. We tinker with that at our peril. A valuable contributor to that…