UK drivers are paying hundreds of millions of pounds more than they need to on their motor insurance premiums because they can't be bothered to clean out their garages. Regularly parking your car on the street can be an expensive habit, both in terms of the damage that can be caused and in increased motor insurance pre...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Motor insurance companies are traditionally keen on young, female drivers. They are traditionally less keen on young male drivers however, a fact reflected in policy prices. Altogether sensible, you would say – young female drivers are both less likely to drive pocket rocket hatchbacks, and less likely to leave t...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010The average car now costs more than twice as much to run as it did ten years ago, says new motor insurance company research.
With increases in fuel, motor insurance, servicing, taxes and fines, costs have now risen to an average £2,053 a year.
However, motor insurance providers have said there are easy way to c...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010With nearly all the associated costs of driving a car rising, just keeping the tank full and the tax and motor insurance covered can seem like a full time job.
It doesn't have to be this way, however, and with a few deft manoeuvres you may be able to reduce your motor insurance premiums by £100s every year.
For...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Researchers at a leading UK University have reignited a conflict almost as old as the petrol engine itself – the endless battle of the sexes about who are the better drivers.
The research team has claimed that the female hormone oestrogen could give women the edge in abilities such as safe driving.
Tests they c...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Most of the factors most feared by UK drivers are preventable with a little care, reveals a new survey.
Brake failure, falling asleep at the wheel, carjacking and tyre blowouts were found to cause the most anxiety among drivers, the study by a leading tyre manufacturer revealed.
But along with the common sense step o...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Five per cent of all vehicle fuel sold in the UK will be grown rather than drilled within the next five years, the government announced recently.
And as well as leaving you with a warm and virtuous glow, the literally green fuels of the future will be as effective at cutting down your running costs as finding the best...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Currently speed humps are the cause of much debate. Driving over speed humps may damage your vehicle and cause discomfort in your passengers. They can also cause higher emissions due to more inefficient driving.
Around 1,000 new 'robo-humps' which automatically retract for drivers travelling within the speed limit are...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010As your grandmother will no doubt have told you, manners are free. But a reluctance to say sorry could be costing UK drivers up to £28 million a year in excessive motor insurance claims.
Nearly 90 per cent of drivers say that their natural impulse following an accident is to apologise. But as many as a fifth of ...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has completed its first major investigation into insurance sales since it assumed regulatory powers over the industry.
The FSA announced itself "impressed" with the level of voluntary self regulation, and said that among the 1,700 companies offering home, life and motor...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010A large number of company fleet operators do not bother to carry out even the most basic safety checks on employees who drive for work says a recent survey.
More than a quarter of fleet operators do not check that their drivers have correct motor insurance, and 40 per cent were unaware of whether or not their employee...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Learner drivers are to be given special 'crash courses' to increase their chances of surviving accidents, the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) has said.
The move follows warnings from motor insurance companies and safety experts that driving techniques need to be overhauled to cope with the UK's overcrowded roads.
Moto...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Along with beautiful scenery and convivial residents it seems that Ireland has some of the safest roads in Britain as well. Recent motor insurance research has shown that Belfast is the safest place to drive in the UK.
Belfast city residents are 45 per cent less likely to make a motor insurance claim than drivers in t...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Recent research by the Road Users Alliance (RUA) has found that motorways in the UK are the most jammed in Europe.
UK roads carry over 93 per cent of all passenger travel, but take up less than one per cent of the UK's land mass, claims the RUA. The road network, particularly the motorway system, is in desperate need ...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Roads in the UK could soon be dotted with hundreds of roadside spy cameras cracking down on stolen vehicles and those without motor insurance.
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras would be positioned at strategic locations such as interchanges, petrol stations and town centres as well as motorways, sugges...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010It seems new cars are not as reliable as car makers would have us believe.
Recent research now shows nearly half of all new cars will have a major fault within four years of rolling off the production line. Not quite what the happy car buyer expects or wants to hear.
Within one year of their manufacturer’s warr...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010A report has claimed that companies supplying internet only motor insurance quotes have already forced premium prices down by as much as five per cent.
A leading Accountancy firm says that the new wave of motor insurance providers could provide as much of an upset to the motor insurance industry as the launch of Direc...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Drivers are being warned to keep their licence plates and lights clean during the winter months.
While there has always been a legal and motor insurance requirement to keep them clear, inadvertently obscured registrations could now trigger police automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras and identify them as c...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Mini motorbikes found on highways or on public land without the correct licence, taxation and motorbike insurance will be seized and destroyed, police have warned.
Sales of the baby motor bikes, only around two feet high but styled to look like super bikes and capable of up to 35mph have taken off recently.
But polic...
15:36 Mon 24th May 2010Almost a third of drivers regularly suffer from a newly identified disorder, motor insurance companies have warned.
Traffic Stress Syndrome is a psychological anxiety that can affect certain drivers when stuck in traffic, says the motor insurance report. Symptoms can begin to occur within as little as three minutes.
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