The European Commission has ruled that all new cars operating in the EU must have daytime running lights from February 2011.
Daytime running lights make it easier to see vehicles and have been shown to improve road safety.
Daytime running lights are smaller than headlights. They are mounted on the front of the vehicle and switch on […]

A leading road safety campaigner has savaged a recently released list of safe and unsafe second hand vehicles. The study, compiled by Australia’s Monash University Accident Research Center, claims to have used actual crash data to determine whether a type of vehicle is safe or unsafe. A leaflet based on the study is being widely […]

Motorcycle riders are around 14 times more likely to be killed than a person driving a car.
The recent dramatic rise in motorscooter sales will inevitably mean a big increase in road deaths and injuries, says a leading road safety campaigner.
Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the car buyer’s Dog & Lemon Guide, warned today that motorcycle riders […]

Motorcycle riders are around 20 times more likely to be killed than a person driving a car.
The recent dramatic rise in motorscooter sales will inevitably mean a big increase in road deaths and injuries, says a leading road safety campaigner.
Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the car buyer’s Dog & Lemon Guide, warned today that motorcycle riders […]

Australians shouldn’t be fooled by quick fixes to the current energy crisis, says the car buyers’ Dog & Lemon Guide.
Editor Clive Matthew-Wilson says most ‘green’ cars are worse for the environment than the technologies they replaced.
“If there was an easy way of powering the world’s cars on some alternative energy source, we’d be all for […]