Road safety

A transport boss has been jailed for 15 years and a driver sentenced to six years after two men died when their car was hit by an HGV with faulty brakes.

The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) is calling on employers to introduce company-wide fatigue risk management strategies to combat the problem after its report found around a quarter to almost a third of drivers surveyed had admitted to having fallen asleep while driving at least once in the past year.

Technology has a vital role to play in driver safety, but it can’t be at the expense of human factors.

More than half of Britain’s working days lost in 2019/20 were due to mental ill-health.

Motorists have let their driving standards slip during lockdown, new research has revealed.

James Pomeroy considers the the indirect increase in road deaths due to people avoiding public transport during the pandemic

A contractor has been prosecuted for failing to ensure two of its workers were sufficiently rested to work and travel safely.

The UK government has published a review promising a £5m cash boost following safety criticism

Road traffic accidents take around 1.35 million lives globally every year and cost most countries 3% of their GDP, a recent road safety summit in Sweden revealed.

Since its introduction nearly two decades ago, telematics – the combination of telecommunications and infomatics – has come a long way in reducing the risks of driver distraction.