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Updated motorway driving advice for motorists relating to stopping in an emergency, red X signs and variable speed limits

A third of a million Penalty Charge Notices have yet to be paid, as the pandemic slows the admin and debt recovery process

Congestion is expected over the August bank holiday, but drivers plan on staying closer to home

UK councils have collected record sums from motorists with the total for the 2019/2020 tax year hitting nearly 1.8bn. 

The Government-owned company responsible for England’s motorways and major A roads changes its name and appoints a new boss

Factory shutdowns are confirmed in Japan, but Toyota’s UK production lines remain fully operational

Some drivers have been unable to get on the road due to 1.4 million DVLA applications waiting to be processed

Data shows White people more likely to pass than people from ethnic-minority backgrounds

Overhead electrified gantries could power electric HGVS, as new internal combustion engined trucks won’t be sold from 2040

UK factories turned out 54,962 cars in May, well up on the same month in pandemic-ravaged 2020, but way down on previous Mays

Lack of road traffic police officers in the UK is making it easy for drivers to break the law, according to a survey of 15,500 British motorists

Research produces worrying revelation that four million UK motorists have nodded off behind the wheel at some point

The Hitachi-backed company, which already owned a 25 percent stake in the network, has bought the rest of business from Ecotricity

Three hours’ temporary insurance cover given away; drivers need only email a picture of the vaccination card to redeem offer

Motoring organisations warn many drivers of non-compliant vehicles in Birmingham won’t be able to afford to upgrade to a newer, cleaner model

Insurers will have to offer renewing customers the same quotes as new ones from January 2022

Pretensioners are replaced with fixed anchorage points in a recall affecting 2.2m Volvo cars worldwide

Toyota and Lexus will be covertly marking 100,000 catalytic converters on older cars to allow the parts to be traced following a theft

Government statistics show March 2020 lockdown brought a huge increase in the proportion of car drivers speeding in 30mph zones

Rural roads see 71 per cent of all road fatalities among young drivers, compared to 57 per cent among wider population

UK drivers are in favour of average speed cameras on motorways despite the majority admitting to breaking 70mph limit

Advanced lane-keep assist will allow drivers of certain cars to take their hands off the wheel at speeds of up to 37mph on motorways by the end of 202…

Hugo Griffiths sees too much emotion bound up in the debate over smart motorways when factual analysis is needed.

England is coming out of its third lockdown, with the rest of the UK in a similar position - what does this mean for drivers?

Everything you need to know about how Covid-19 affects cars, motorists and the car industry in the UK

Expansion of mobility credit scheme in Coventry sees those who stop driving given £1,500 towards a new bicycle

A company developing aviation infrastructure for electric and autonomous air vehicles has backing of UK Government and Hyundai

New data suggests 10 per cent more cars are being used in the UK now than during the first lockdown in March 2020

Climate Change Committee says that as well as banning sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, 46% of all cars - or 16 million vehicles - on the…

Highways England data reveals the perilous state of 4,000 of England’s 9,000 road bridges

The sale of internal combustion engined cars is set to be banned within 15 years, but vast investment is required to make electric motoring feasible.

Research suggests it’s more cost-effective to buy a new electric car and run it for its lifetime than it is to do so with a new petrol or diesel car

Police watchdog voices concerns that camera locations are chosen as “good hunting grounds” to raise money from fines, rather than to improve safety

Following a criticism by a German court that Tesla’s driver assistance systems are marketed incorrectly, UK safety experts express similar concerns

Children think their fathers are better drivers than their mothers, but say dad drives too fast and is more susceptible to road rage

Private parking companies issued 8.4 million parking tickets in the 2019-20 financial year, up from 6.8 million in 2018-19