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| 2Pass Newsletter | NOVEMBER 2006 / Issue 94 | |
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Driving Tip of the Month Following with Road Safety Week Buying a safe vehicle Research shows that young drivers tend to ignore the running costs and concentrate on image when buying a car. Statistics show that: · 33% choose a car on style and image · 7% choose a car based on running costs · 13% choose a car because it will have cheap insurance However, the most important factor when choosing a new car should be safety. Don't be tempted to join the ‘boy racer culture’ and look for a car with modifications such as big exhausts, spoilers and blacked out windows. Warning:- · These cars are likely to have been ‘thrashed’ by previous owners. · The insurance will be higher for a modified car. · They will be paying more for the modifications rather than the quality of the car. · They are likely to suffer prejudice – people will assume that they are a fast and dangerous driver. If you can afford it, you should be encouraged to buy a second-hand but reasonably new and safe car as opposed to an ‘old banger’ which is likely to be unreliable and unsafe. Older cars do not have the same crash protection as new cars, and lives can be saved thanks to features such as air bags and crumple zones. You should make sure safety is considered the priority when buying a car – there are many stylish cars with very good safety ratings. Click here for the Euro NCAP website, which features safety reviews and ratings for many makes of cars.
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Road Safety Week
New style multi-purpose test centres
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Christmas Gifts for the Learner Driver
Not may more days until Christmas and lots of shopping still to do. We have put together a page for Christmas Gifts ideas for the Learner Driver. More Focus Multimedia have put together some great Software Christmas Gift Packs for all the family. Please click on the links below for all the details. Adult Gift Packs Children’s Gift Packs Rogue drivers 'plague UK streets' The number of people driving while disqualified increased from 48,900 in 1997 to 59,500 in 2004. This represents a jump of 20 per cent since Tony Blair came to power. Statistics from the Tories also show that an estimated three quarters of a million cars on the UK's streets are not registered on an official database, around two million drive without tax or insurance and many others are on the roads without a full driving licence. Chris Grayling, the shadow transport secretary, said: "My concern is that the increasing emphasis on speed cameras under this government means that there aren't enough real traffic police to drive rogue drivers - who are often the ones involved in the worst accidents - off our roads." More Safety call as clocks go back As the clocks go back and the nights draw in, there is habitually a marked increase in the number of road accidents, a major insurance company has claimed. In the month leading up to the end of British summer time last year, 12,400 Zurich Insurance policy holders made accident claims but in the four week period afterwards, this figure rose by 17.1 per cent. This is backed up by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accident's figures, which say that the number of deaths and serious injuries among pedestrians rose from 609 in October 2005 to 738 the following month and the number of children severely hurt of killed jumped 13 per cent. More |
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Driving Standards Agency’s (DSA) first multi-purpose test centre was opened in Gloucester on 19 October 2006.