Polski Dzial Calls for Employers to do More to Reduce Road Casualties
Employers are being urged by road safety charity Brake to play their part in reducing the number of devastating casualties among pedestrians and cyclists. Government figures show that six people are killed and 157 seriously injured every week while walking or cycling, and at least 24% of road deaths and serious injuries involve a vehicle […]
Mobile devices more of a distraction than a screaming child
A recent study has exposed the distraction and danger to drivers of just having a mobile phone in the car, with a fifth of participants in a simulator situation moving their eyes from the road for more than seven seconds after simply hearing their phone ring. The simulator study commissioned by esure car insurance reveals […]
Reported road casualties Great Britain
The Department of Transport has published statistics on personal injury accidents in the year ending March 2012 on public roads (including footways) in Great Britain. The statistics show that:
Sentencing after Telford fireball incident
A company and its manager have been fined after two workers were engulfed in a fireball when they cut through a live 1,000 volt electrical cable at an industrial unit in Telford. The two men had been told to find an underground water leak at an empty industrial unit owned by the company in Telford. […]