Category Archives: Motoring News

House of Lords proposes fines for drivers who litter

July 22, 2012   simon

A peer in the House of Lords has proposed making it easier to fine drivers who throw litter from their cars. It is already possible for councils to fine people up to £80 for throwing litter from a car, but the driver can say it wasn’t them/ they lent their car to a friend/ it was a little green alien.
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Chris Evans’ Ferrari 328 goes for £35K

July 22, 2012   simon

The results have come in from the latest classic car auction by Barons Chris Evans’ 25,000 mile Ferrari 328 GTS went for £34,750, just below the £36,000 paid for one of the last E-Types, a 1975 Series 3 V12.

Other notable sales included a scarlet 1961 Chrysler 300G. This had been bought and restored in 1997 by Chrysler UK, who displayed it in their head office and used it for promotion and advertising. It reached £20.730. Showing the strange world of classic cars, almost the same amount (£20,720) was paid by a telephone bidder for the registration number ‘TOP 10’. Who do you reckon? Pop star, record producer or just rich wannabe?

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Nigel Mansell backs training for young drivers

July 21, 2012   simon

With the news that 23% of drivers in the 18-24 age group have had a crash, Nigel Mansell is backing calls for driver training before people get to the age of 17. Mansell, a Member of the Commission for Global Road Safety, said: “This is a vitally important issue which doesn’t get enough attention. Too many of our young people are still being killed or injured on the roads. These are preventable tragedies.”
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M6 Toll Road pricing cars off the road?

July 20, 2012   simon

It appears that steep rises on the M6 toll road mean motorists are going back to the traffic jams on the old M6 route.The M6 toll was designed to handle 100,000 cars a day – the normal figure for a three-lane motorway. However, last year it was handling just 34,000, down from 55,000 in 2006, and the lowest figure since it opened in 2004. Since 2004, tolls have gone up from £2 to £5.50. Most of those displaced cars appear to have gone back to the old route, which is now gridlocked again.
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MP’s report on road safety: more training and more action needed

July 20, 2012   simon

The Transport Select Committee of MPs has criticised the government after the first increase in road deaths for nearly a decade. 1,901 people were killed on Britain’s roads last year, which is 51 more than the year before and is the first increase since 2003. Road accidents are the main reason for deaths among the 16-to-24-year-old age group.
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