You are concerned about your personal safety while out and about on the roads here is a comprehensive, no-nonsense guide from GEM Motoring Assist, the leading UK driver based road safety association. Think ahead - Where possible travel by day on main, well used roads. Plan your route in advance and check that you have an up-to-date road map in the car so you won't need to ask for directions. - If you...
For many vehicle drivers in Pune, the old figure of Mangesh Tendulkar, handing over pictures sketched by him on road safety has now become a familiar sight.
• RESIDENTS are invited to take part in a public meeting on Tuesday, 24 November, to discuss the measures in place in the borough to stop people speeding.
Edutainment title Code of Everand is the UK Department of Transport's effort to teach children road safety. The free MMO is targeted at 9-13 year olds and attempts to "encourage and reward" repetition of good behaviors for the real world. The premise is actually surprisingly clever, with players taking the role of the Pathfinders and endeavoring to safely cross "the Spirit Channels,"...
There are remarkable increase both in Teenager Car Insurance Policy and Claims. Normally the premium for teenager car insurance is very high when compared to people over 25 years. However, some insurance companies are considerate towards teenagers and offer cheap insurance polices. Studies show that teenagers are more accident prone than older drivers between the ages of 30 and 50. The greater the...
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, says improving road safety should be treated with the same urgency as fighting the global recessoin. Moscow is hosting the first global ministerial conference on road safety in an attempt to help takcle a problem that Medvedev says is costing the global economy around $500bn a year. Neave Barker reports frmo the Russian [...]
Exerpted from Hansard , in 2004, when Harriet Harman was Solicitor General: Mr David Kidney (Stafford, Labour) To ask the Solicitor-General how many road vehicles are operated by the Department and its agencies; how many personal injury accidents involving road vehicles operated by the Department have occurred within each of the last five years; and what the Department's policy is for managing work-related...
You may have noticed that I have not posted for a while, the reason is here . Some of the world's poorest countries are to receive a cash injection of £1.5m from the UK government to help improve road safety. Road accidents are now a bigger cause of death than malaria in developing countries, with one person dying on the roads every 30 seconds. The funding will pay for pedestrian crossings and...
Global efforts should be coordinated to ensure road safety, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday. "We need to coordinate the international efforts in this area ... in the same way as we are now working on dealing with the consequences of the global financial crisis," Medvedev was quoted by local media as telling the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in...
An innovative online game to help reduce the number of children killed and injured on Britain’s roads has been launched by Road Safety Minister Paul Clark. ‘The Code of Everand’ uses a virtual world to help children develop skills – such as finding a safe place to cross and planning ahead – which will help them [...]
Address by Honourable Sibusiso Ndebele Member of Parliament and Minister of Transport, South Africa, at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, Moscow 20 November 2009 "Partnerships for Road Safety" Madam Chair Honourable Ministers Ladies and Gentlemen The DVD we have just watched is a clear illustration of the seriousness and urgency of road safety in Africa, in the world....