Safety charity urges headrest care

Drivers should ensure that, according to brake are properly set the headrests.

And road safety charity says driver should change cars if you have no head restraints, or those equipped can be adjusted incorrectly.

Head restraints are intended to protect the head in an accident and to prevent the neck hyper extension ', while a crash - which can lead to serious injuries.A report of 2008 by the Association of British insurance company showed that over 432,000 people an insurance claim for whiplash every year make injuries.

Brake says that the way to a headrest adjust adjust the backrest, so that it upright, bring the restraint rather than reclined, as close as possible to the back of the head as possible modified.system, restraint should be then adjusted so that its top level with the top is the seat occupant of head.

However, carried out a survey for the charity, two-thirds of respondents said that you did not know how to properly position the restraint or incorrectly thought, its peak should be level with the neck and the ears.

"Even if drivers your headrest research shows regularly, us, an idea would most drivers, whether it was correct or not," said brake Chief Executive Mary Williams OBE.

Call for a major awareness-raising campaign on "this life-saving, easy action", warned you that "wrong head restraints result in death, permanent disability, and in the more minor cases back and neck pain unbearable".

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Safety in road transport expenditure 'money Government.'

Maintenance of road safety issues given the far-reaching budget cuts will end save the Government money, according to the Institute of advance motorists (IAM).

The claim follows warnings from other Motorsport groups during Tuesday's 'not' budget certainly charities and transport lobby groups have highlighted its concerns where the cuts in the transport expenditure will fall.

According to the IAM proves "his research the value of setting objectives damage accident reduction and consistent financing".It claims that were first introduced in the 20 years since objectives, 31,000 lives only stored resulting in a financial saving £ 50 billion.

Supports their figures on the Government own estimate each road death 1.68 million pounds costs society says IAM that .these arise from a reduced impact on NHS resources, the group says continued investment in road safety measures "significant prices back into the economy will produce", in addition to cost savings associated with less long-term injuries, less lost working days and lower levels of congestion due to accidents.

The call is the Department for transport figures released today show that the number of people in road accidents killed from 2,538 in 2008, 2,222 last year fiel.Die IAM cautioned, however, that the downward trend should not be affected by spending cuts will be scheduled for the next four years by 25%.

IAM Director who said policy and research Neil Greig: "the effects of the accident reduction targets was enormous."

"If we with our current rate of investment, could annual deaths in the United Kingdom far below 2,000 to 2020 - a further saving of £ 4 billion and 2,500 life over the next decade float."

"Punitive cuts of the road security budgets are they huge financial and social gains compromise."

"Our message is simple: money expenditure on road safety."

Response to Tuesday's budget, road safety charity brake said had, it was "outraged that road safety was so brutally targeted has", cuts on show, in councils Street provides security.

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Safety charity urges Copenhagen clock change

UK watches would bring life on the road, to save the Royal Society for the prevention of accidents (ROSPA).

And charity claims that so-called "double single daylight saving time" (SDST) emissions carbon dioxide (CO2) würde.Es urged the Government to what he sermon "practice", as delegates from around the world the United Nations climate change conference held in Copenhagen this month participate on environmental progress.

Click see SDST would be watches two hours before the Greenwich meantime in summer and one hour ahead in the winter - a movement that had said RoSPA "well documented" life-saving Potential.Allerdings group said that the "significant environmental benefits" of such a measure are less known, highlighting Cambridge University Research saves a 450,000 tonnes of CO2 each year suggested.

RoSPA CEO Tom Mullarkey would added that also resulting lighter evenings benefit the tourism industry.

Call for a trial version of SDST as soon as possible, highlighted Mullarkey a passage written by Gordon Brown to earlier this month he evidence and argument use, on "all the anti-science and anti-change environment Luddites" to take, try that are required in the way of progress.

"It is high time for the Government to practice what you preaching and simple steps companies around to protect our most vulnerable road users" Mullarkey added.

Meanwhile, motorists (IAM) the risk of driver has highlighted of advanced to the Institute which dazzled by low winter sun.

Stresses the need to clean the inside and outside of windscreens, said chief examiner Peter Rodger "Dirty windscreens make it even more difficult for drivers that see in the low winter sun we get every morning and late afternoon at this time of year."

The charity drivers urged to keep washer bottles increased reserve each year to replace good sunglasses in the car and windshield wipers.

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Road Safety Congress enlists international expertise

Fire and rescue, police and military are together with politicians, highway engineers and drivers training this week under the auspices of the 75th road safety Congress come.

Organized by the Royal Society for the prevention of accidents (RoSPA) that three-day event to international knowledge on how to reduce deaths and injuries on the road to sammeln.Eine Swedish delegation is the country's road implement security policies - which sketch aim to eradicate all deaths - while a spokesman for the Dutch police is the emerging threat by driving and drugs.

Meanwhile, discuss the Department to create his vision for Britain's roads for transport, its road safety framework for the next decade will present as the safest in the world and the Scottish Government.

The driving standards agency is also to report on its ongoing reforms in the training and examination of driver set.

RoSPA head of road security Kevin Clinton said after the current road safety strategy and target period 2010 it is set later in the year, replaced by a new period that would bring "Updated priorities and new ambitious casualty reduction targets".

However, he added that although the United Kingdom is a "world leader" road safety, it could learn from international experience.

"Our 75th road safety Congress will provide a timely insight in other countries the same problem of too many roads are killed and injured on the addressing," Clinton said.

In November last year met to discuss the first Global Ministerial Conference on safety on the road in Russia as against the problem of road accidents, which every year worldwide kill 1.2 million.

Ended with a call for a "Decade of action ' on road safety, starting in 2011 würde.Es is to be hoped that the so-called"Moscow Declaration"formally next week global road safety debate, is accepted instead of the United Nations General Assembly."

Speech at the beginning of the month, said Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh, global Ambassador for the make roads safe campaign, it was vital, that the Declaration was approved.

"Millions of lives are at stake, and 2 March can signal to a new start in the way the world of road traffic injuries challenge," she added.

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Study reveals cycle lane safety fears

Cycling in a painted cycle lane could be more than cycling on a standard road, dangerous new research suggests.

And the study conducted of Leeds and Bolton universities, suggests that reducing the speed and traffic more effective at improving the cyclist would be security.

Researchers of the universities recorded cycle rides on three streets consisting sections with no bike trails - all less than 1.5 metres width of the Department of transport were recommended.

They found that driver "run an overtaking" where there are no cycle lane Zimmer.jedoch on routes with a track drivers tend a cyclists assume that there is enough space cyclists and the rest of the road as your handle.

Studied at the worst track - pass the A6 near Garstang, Lancashire - driver 18 cm closer in sections where there was a cycle lane.

"Bike paths have play a role in improving the road conditions for cyclists," cyclists' Touring Club said policy co-ordinator Chris Peck, quoted in the times.

"But this research has concerns that you are not always the best solution and cycling more unpleasant."

The research is in the journal accident analysis and prevention released.

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Three point safety harness turns 50

It is 50 years since the first three point seat belt in a production was added Auto - at the time, saved it around one million according to Volvo, the car company lives for the first time made it.

The permanent design was by Nils Bohlin, a Swedish inventor working for Volvo invented, who wanted to improve used early round belt in the automotive industry.

Bohlin's invention was both protection of air passengers and the ease of setting a belt on increased, patented in the late 1950s, but immediately freely made available other automakers.

Click you in the United Kingdom Government sponsored campaigns in the 1970's increasing the amount of people who take choice belt, but it was not helped up 1983 than wear seat belts on the front of a car was mandatory that most started to use it.

Seat belts were 1991 mandatory for child passengers in 1989 and then for all passengers, front and back.

Believed it is that the revolution in the seat belt wearing in that country alone has saved thousands of lives? an estimated 35,000 since 1983, according to the Parliamentary Advisory Council for transport safety.

Department for transport but claims that approximately 10% of drivers still fail Gürtel-Up, but by the insurer research direct line last year suggested that the figure could be as high as 19%.

And road safety activists are highlighting their claim that several hundred more deaths each year would be removed if all your seat belt.

"Wearing a seat belt is a way, you can dramatically increase your chances of survival in a crash, even though only a short drive or you believe it, it is necessary to set one is not," said Duncan Vernon, from security group ROSPA, BBC News.

"As we get new drivers each week, it is important that everyone hears about the message, such as the belt carry important is."

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Tyre safety message as cold weather looms

Manufacturers and safety groups are warning drivers on the tyres to be aware as forecasters predict a cold start in winter.

Tyre maker Michelin has warned that properly inflated tires can be dangerous and Minderfülldrucks contributes to the higher fuel consumption and emissions.

During a tour of 17 locations in the UK the company found that 65% of the cars tested press thirty-five percent incorrect appropriate had dangerously low ranked 14 PSI with 10% as very dangerous - or the car maker's recommendation.

Each twentieth of 2 600-plus cars tested had a puncture.

Michelin warned that under inflated tires increases the risk of aquaplaning on wet roads, and could lead to overheating or even failure of tyre damage.

Now that predicted met Office that December as last year his wird.Niederschlag (rain, sleet, hail and snow) is colder than the average, with this winter as a whole remaining colder expected to increase by an average or less than the average for the season to be.

Recently, security body TyreSafe tyre industry urged to check driver fitting specialist tyres, similar to those in some other European countries legally required.

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UN approved 'Decade of Action on Road Safety'

10 Years from 2011-2020 is an international focus on global road safety, bring to the United Nations adopted proposals designed, save millions of lives.

The agreement follows petitions to the international community by the FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) of make roads safe campaign 2011 starting a so-called Decade of action for road safety required hatte.Die Group had his message met, the first global road safety Conference, meeting in Moscow last year, the Minister from 70 countries participated in November.

Make roads safe says that joined by decision making, the UN has to meet a rapidly increasing global problem.To 1.3 million are killed the campaign people worldwide each year in road accidents.

Without intervention of the international community it argued, would this figure be set "dramatically" during ansteigen.Es approaching 2020 claims however, that a "major co-ordinated approach" by 2020 can prevent five million deaths and 50 million injuries.

The 20-point UN resolution officially welcomes the Moscow Declaration, assign to 2011 and 2020 the World Health Organization calls the objective of stabilising and then the number of road deaths against current forecast levels reduzieren.Es and UN regional commissions lead an action plan with partners, to work during the entire decade to produce.

It demands governments together with public institutions and private companies to avoid driver distractions such as texting while driving - some of the most recent surveys identified as a significant threat to the security.

Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh, make roads safe global Ambassador, said the children of school age upwards of 2,000 of the General Assembly during the debate, killed or seriously injured every day worldwide - and this number is set in the coming years double.

"By having road safety a priority in the next ten years we the potential, to millions of lives save, and many millions of injuries and disabilities, to prevent" she added.

"The UN Decade of action for road safety gives us a real chance to change direction."

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