A major new road safety campaign aimed at car drivers in Greater Manchester has plenty of good advice for bike riders, too. The series of films by Safer Roads Greater Manchester offers a new perspective on the dangers of driving after drinking alcohol or taking drugs. Called ‘Your Car Can’t Say No’, the campaign carries the...
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The wet summer hasn’t just made bike riding a less pleasurable experience; it’s also hampered efforts to repair the nation’s damaged road networks – and that signals potential trouble for bike riders… No one who’s been out riding this summer can have missed how bad the weather’s been: wet, cold and often pretty miserable. Indeed,...
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The head of road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has urged the Government to up its game in a bid to reduce fatalities and injuries among the bike riding community. Antony Kildare made his feelings known as Department for Transport official figures showed that one-in-five of all road deaths in UK are bikers, despite making up...
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Government road safety campaign THINK! has relaunched its ‘Travel Like You Know Them’ campaign, as part of efforts to raise awareness of the 2022 Highway Code changes. The changes create a hierarchy of vulnerability among road users and place an increasing scale of responsibility on road users depending on their potential to do harm. In...
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Leading road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist has launched a new campaign to keep motorcycle riders safe this summer by encouraging car and van drivers to take an extra look for them at junctions, where many collisions occur. GEM warns that summertime sees many roads become busier with riders as they take advantage...
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Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has introduced new and upgraded speed cameras “that will ensure that all road users adhere to speed limits and do not engage in reckless or anti-social behaviour”. The upgraded spot speed cameras uses Jenoptik’s latest VECTOR SR technology. The camera system is ANPR-based and has the capability for 24/7 bi-directional...
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A coalition of organisations is calling on the Government to make changes to compulsory basic training (CBT) for motorcycles to strengthen safety standards and reduce danger on roads. The current CBT for motorcycles and mopeds, which enables people as young as 17 to ride up to the national speed limit with L-plates after one day...
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Heidi Duffy MBE, the National Young Rider Forum Facilitator, penned a thought-provoking editorial to coincide with National Young Rider Day on June 27. In it she asks if the lives of young motorcyclists matter to wider society, as so little seems to be being done to keep them safe on the road. As she points...
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A ‘hidden epidemic of drug-riding is at large in Britain’, according to a report by leading road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart – and it’s not just illicit drugs that are the problem. While the rules on riding after taking recreational drugs are well known and lead to hefty fines and bans from the road, what...
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