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Drivers distracted by their phones could cause more deaths on UK roads than drink drivers by 2015, claims in-car camera manufacturer SmartWitness. Statistics from the Department for Transport show that 378 accidents involving mobile phone…

  In the past BMW’s model range may have been simple with saloons and estates of different sizes and the occasional sports car. The 2014 line up however, caters for every buyers’ whim. Looking for…

  Greater Manchester Police has unveiled a rainbow-patterned police car as part of its stand against homophobic hate crimes in the city. Officers have claimed that the car demonstrates “modern policing” in action, and is…

Many large stores are failing to fit child car seats correctly, potentially putting children in danger, according to consumer charity Which?. Research discovered that staff at some stores which offer free child car seat fitting…

Drivers who smoke or fail to prevent passengers from smoking in their cars when a child is present could face staggering fines of up to £10,000, under new proposals announced by Government. The plans, put…

A Welsh undertaker has been jailed for two weeks after emptying a bag of flour over a car blocking his hearse. Julian Riley, 39 admitted causing criminal damage to a neighbour’s car in Clydach near…

The punishment for using a mobile phone behind the wheel could be doubled to six points on drivers’ licences, if newly announced plans get the go-ahead. This would mean that motorists caught driving while on…

You might expect to find snakes in Australia rather than Austria, but one Austrian driver got a shock after finding a two metre long snake dangling below her car’s engine. Monika Ortner from Radenthein, in…

A 71-year-old charity worker has been fined £70 by Birmingham City Council for stopping on zig-zag lines outside a school – for just seven seconds. The former care worker says that she had only stopped…