New Road Safety Act - important implications for all organisations with fleet drivers

The new Road Safety Act makes provision for a range of road safety matters. These cover drink driving, speeding, penalties and enforcement, driver training and driver and vehicle licensing. The Act introduces new offences of causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving (with a maximum penalty of five years in prison); causing death by driving whilst unlicensed, disqualified, or uninsured (with a maximum penalty of two years in prison); and keeping a vehicle that does not meet insurance requirements.

With regard to drink driving the Act requires the worst offenders to re-take the driving test and prevents those offenders at highest risk of re-offending from driving pending medical enquiries. The new Act provides for graduated fixed penalties for speeding and increases the range of penalty points available for those offences. It also prohibits the fitting or use of speed camera jammers and/or detectors, although a GPS based system to recognise the position of known cameras is allowed.

The Act provides for the obligatory disqualification, for a minimum of six months, of a person using a vehicle in a dangerous condition (if the offence is committed within three years of a previous conviction for the same offence). It will also enable the Secretary of State to make it obligatory for vehicle mileage to be supplied to the DVLA.

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New Road Safety Act - important implications for all organisations with fleet drivers

Safe Driving Plus - online risk assessment and e-learning

Safe Driving Plus - online risk assessment
and e-learning