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Covid makes Britain’s roads safer: Insurance pay outs drop by £4.4bn with 41% less accidents and 26% fewer deaths than in 2019 London motorists have made £693m-worth fewer car insurance claims in 2020 Accident levels in the capital have fallen almost 60 per cent due to Covid-19 Motorists in Scotland have recorded almost 37 per … Read more
Britain’s most dangerous roads for air pollution levels have been revealed – and more than 75% are in London. Analysis by environmental legal firm ClientEarth has emerged following a landmark inquest that ruled air pollution contributed to the death of a nine-year-old asthmatic girl Ella Kiss-Debrah. Ella, who lived 80ft from London’s congested South Circular … Read more
The great Christmas getaway looked very different today with just a quarter of drivers planning a journey by car over the Christmas period. Only 7.9million cars are expected to take to the roads, compared to around 17million who planned to travel last year, according to a recent AA survey. The A14 in Cambridgeshire was quiet … Read more
Motorists beware, police forces around the country are trialling new handheld speed guns that will make it far easier for them to catch and fine road users who exceed limits. A number of UK constabularies – including Northumbria Police and Warwickshire Police – in recent months have announced they are beginning to use the latest version … Read more
Nigel Farage vows to field candidates against EVERY local councillor who backs Boris Johnson’s ‘ridiculous’ push for ‘green roads’ By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 13:37 GMT, 6 December 2020 | Updated: 13:38 GMT, 6 December 2020 Nigel Farage today vowed to field candidates against every councillor who backs Boris Johnson’s ‘green roads’ … Read more
Roads bosses plan Brexit rehearsal by shutting M20 in Kent for four nights as they test new system to deal with lorries queuing for Europe A movable reservation has been designed to keep traffic moving near Dover Part of the M20 in Kent will be closed for four nights as new system is tested A … Read more
Half of the bridges on our roads are in a ‘poor’ condition, official figures suggest Almost half of England’s motorway bridges are in a poor or very poor condition Some 858 bridges have at least one crucial section in a ‘very poor condition’ Highways England insisted a ‘poor’ rating does not mean a bridge is … Read more
More than 200 statues, streets and buildings in Wales named after historic Britons have been identified as having connections to the slave trade, according to a Welsh government-ordered audit. The review was ordered by First Minister Mark Drakeford following the death of George Floyd in the US and the toppling of the statue of Edward … Read more
Rishi Sunak vowed to plough £100billion into road, rail and broadband projects yesterday. The Chancellor refused to renege on the Government’s plan for ‘once-in-a-generation’ infrastructure spending. Despite the Covid hit to the economy, he said he was pressing ahead with the highest sustained level of public investment in more than 40 years. Mr Sunak told … Read more
Young people have fuelled a decline in car ownership among nearly a third of England’s population, as they turn instead to electric scooters and bicycles, new figures reveal. The number of private cars owned by individuals fell in areas that account for 31.5% of the population of England – or 16 million people – according to … Read more