The appointment of Edmund King, President of the AA, as a Visiting Professor working with the Transport Operations Research Group at Newcastle University has been confirmed by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Chris Brink.
Professor Edmund King will today (10) give a key seminar in Newcastle talking about the power of the media in influencing transport decision [...]

AA DriveTech has announced its appointment of Jason Vallint as Business Development Director with special responsibility for the division’s Driver CPC activities.
Jason was previously a director at BiS Henderson and has held senior positions at the Transport Research Laboratory and the environmental consultancy AEA Technology plc, where he was responsible for initiating driver development schemes [...]

AA DriveTech, the division of the AA Group responsible for the delivery of all driver risk management products and services relating to those who drive for work purposes, has appointed Jason Vallint as Business Development Director with special responsibility for the division’s Driver CPC activities.
Although AA DriveTech already has a portfolio of innovative courses [...]

Paul Holmes, formerly Head of AA Risk Management Solutions, has been appointed Director of the FleetSafe division of AA DriveTech, the AA Group brand responsible for all fleet-related training and driver risk management    activities.
Commenting on the appointment, AA DriveTech Managing Director, Jim Kirkwood, said, “With the absorption of AA Risk Management Solutions into AA DriveTech [...]

EuroNCAP, the car crash testing organisation of which the AA is a supporter and founding member have pronounced Europe’s best selling car, the Volkswagen Golf to be its safest car too.
A total of 33 new car models were tested with each being awarded an overall safety rating based on combined performance in four areas; [...]

Legislation is going through Parliament to regulate cowboy clampers with the AA giving crucial evidence today (28) to the House of Commons scrutiny committee. The AA will be insisting on an independent appeals process.
The AA said that it is a great relief that at last the Government is pushing forward further regulation to clamp down [...]

Almost a fifth of AA members (19%) know someone who has driven while suffering from a medical condition knowing they should not have driven, according to new research from the AA revealed today at the ACPO/Police Federation conference.
Yet just 2% of AA members admit that they themselves have driven when suffering from a medical condition [...]

The AA is asking motorists to spare a thought for the families of more than 4,200 young drivers who failed to see out the first decade of the millennium due to fatal accidents over the last 10 years.
Official figures reveal that more than 40,000 drivers aged 29 or younger -equal to the population of Salisbury [...]

Emergency road maintenance funding is required to stop crumbling roads costing more in compensation and accidents, according to the AA today.
Drivers who think they will be in the clear after the thawing of the snow will find an aggravated plague of potholes to contend with in the coming months, the AA has also warned. Last [...]

Putting on mascara, watching ‘Battlestar Galactica’ on a lap top or ogling attractive pedestrians are all activities that drivers get up to behind the wheel, according to the AA.
The AA is calling on drivers to make a New Year’s Resolution to reduce driver distractions. Cases of driver distraction have included:

A 22 year old woman was [...]