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Read more Devices like Target Blu Eye get green light from Dutch Government for road safety
1 November 2022
You are deep in your thoughts, concentrating on the road ahead, and all of a sudden, there is an ambulance or fire engine with flashing Blue lights and a siren behind you. You now need to move out of the way as quickly as possible; sometimes, finding a space to move to is difficult. Wouldn't it be much better and significantly safer if you received an early warning of the approaching emergency service vehicle in your car?
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Read more Unmarked police vehicles: what this means for drivers
28 October 2022
Have you ever had the experience of driving along the motorway, you’re listening to the radio and looking regularly in your mirrors to maintain good oversight of what other cars are doing around you.
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Read more Protecting yourself from imposter police vehicles
22 October 2022
Driving along the motorway and you see flashing blue lights in your rear-view mirror. Likely, your first thought is that you hope you haven’t been speeding or that you unintentionally violated traffic law. Your knee-jerk reaction is to pull over. Unfortunately, in the UK, fake undercover police, criminals pulling over unsuspecting victims, is a worrying trend. It can put you and your fellow passengers in immediate danger.
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Read more Eyes on the road: Hands off your phone or face the penalties
15 October 2022
A mobile phone patrol in an unmarked police HGV officer found that people still use their phones very often during traffic, even though the fine has increased. “Police sitting in unmarked HGV lorries are secretly filming drivers not wearing seatbelts or on their mobile phones. Forces around the country are employing the method to catch out drivers eating or reading at the wheel.
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Read more Stay calm and move aside: Collisions involving police vehicles
8 October 2022
When we experience a shock, something that takes us by utter surprise, we often feel like we are on autopilot and our survival mechanism takes over. An auto accident can be one of those life experiences that can really shake us and it is one that we hope to never have to go through. Every day in the UK, there are about 60 car accidents on average. Many are with other automobiles or road users, but some of them are with emergency service vehicles. That adds another element of distress. So how can you avoid a situation like that altogether?
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Read more Hold your horses: Target Blu Eye doesn’t give drivers the licence to speed
1 October 2022
An article published on 15 May 2022 in The Times bears the headline: “Speeding causes three times as many road deaths as previously thought”. A Metropolitan Police review has found that speeding was cited as a factor in 17.5 per cent of fatal crashes in 2019 based on the initial investigation, but 49.2 percent based on the final results. The figure for 2020 was revised up from 19.1 per cent to 46.8 percent.
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