We make better drivers. Road safety charity covering Bournemouth and the surrounding area.
04/12/2023
Our first Social & Christmas meeting of our new Group will be at 7.30 pm on Thursday 7th December at Kinson Community Centre, Pelhams Park, Millhams Road, Kinson BH10 7 LH.
Our speaker is Edward Salt from BBC TV News South Today. Please arrive from 7pm when light refreshments will be available. Partners/ friends welcome.
04/11/2023
A F1RST for Dorset’s High Sherriff
Colin Weston, the High Sherriff of Dorset, this week passed his Advanced Test with a First.
Many congratulations Colin.
Government announces new long-term plan to back drivers
Plan for drivers will sit alongside continued investment in public transport and active travel.
new long-term government plan will support drivers and put the brakes on anti-car measures
plan will address drivers’ everyday concerns with new measures to keep traffic moving, make parking simpler, and clamp down on overrunning road works
guidance to be reviewed on 20mph limits and low traffic neighbourhoods in England to ensure local support, ending blanket imposition of anti-driver policies
From:
Department for Transport, The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, and The Rt Hon Mark Harper MP
Published
29 September 2023
05/08/2023
FIA Best Young Driver Competition
A taxing day at Thruxton for the aspiring finalists entered in the FIA Best Young Driver Event which IAM RoadSmart facilitated.
The two UK winners are seen here with Neville, one of our Masters Mentors who was part of the assessment team.
The final involved a testing series of in-car skills competitions at Thruxton Circuit.
The two winners will go on to represent the UK in the International Final at a state-of-the-art vehicle testing facility in Austria.
Many congratulations from the Bournemouth RoadSmart Group.
04/07/2023
In 10 years the number of drivers over 70 has increased by almost two million
Latest figures from the DVLA & Dept for Transport reveal 41,570,822 people havd s full UK drivers licence & an increase of 500,000 over last year.
1.65 million drivers are over 80 up by 100,000. With an aging population there has been an increase of drivers in all the older age groups including those over 100 with 510 centenarians still officially able to drive compared with just 162 motorists 11 years ago.
Other news-Petrol & diesel car owners may be charged to drive their cars in a major UK city under measures set to be introduced this week.
Data from Graham Feest Consultancy Incorporating the UK Road Safety Network July 2023
03/07/2023
Don’t own a bike? - well check out Cyclinguk.org
Project Edward reports bike hire is pretty good value
30/06/2023
Protect your car from Keyless theft
Advice from Hampshire Police includes
30/06/2023
Local rise in Keyless car theft
28/06/2023
PACTS -Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport
A body set up post Brexit to help to unravel laws that we may no longer need, is employed looking into 700 which involve roads & road transport legislation.
One item under investigation by PACTS includes the effectiveness of 20 mph speed limits which were first introduced in small areas in the 1990’s.
Under their consideration is data from the project LUSTRE -Lower Urban Speed Limits in Europe, a multi-centred report which is supported by a £60k grant from the Road Safety Trust.
The full report together with those conclusions that can be made is available from www.pacts.org.uk/lustre or read more on our website
28/06/2023
Badbury Rings New Speed Limit
28/06/2023
Such stupidity
21/06/2023
Seat belts fine