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Thursday, March 18th 2010

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AA President becomes Professor

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 focus on driver CPC with new appointment

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 stress importance of Driver CPC requirements

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 [...]

AA Drivetech appoints Paul Holmes as divisional head

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 [...]

AA pronounce VW Golf, Europe’s safest car

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; [...]

AA gives evidence against Clampers

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 [...]

Six million drivers may drive when they know they shouldn’t for medical reasons

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 [...]

AA highlight ‘Decade of Carnage’

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 [...]

After the snow, drivers now face pothole menace

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 [...]

A New Year Resolution to cut driver distractions

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 [...]

Stolen and wrecked cars add to winter claims

Snow and black ice have brought up to 40 per cent more insurance claims than for normal December days – but some display a distinct lack of Christmas goodwill, says AA Insurance. Drivers returning to cars they had to abandon are finding that they have been damaged by other vehicles or broken in to by thieves. “There’s [...]

AA welcomes police crackdown on drunk drivers

The police are increasing their targeting of drink drivers this festive season, a move welcomed by the AA and our members, especially as annual figures for 2008 showed an increase in drink-drive deaths – to 430 – while there was a substantial fall in overall road deaths. Last Christmas 183, 397 breath tests were carried out [...]

Are the authorities prepared for Winter?

The AA warned earlier this week that some local authorities may not have learned lessons from last February’s problems with gritting on the roads. Now the Chairman of the UK Roads Liaison Group review of winter service is quoted as saying “I am concerned that some authorities have not embraced the recommendations of our recent report”. The [...]

The AA want the police to target ‘Cash for Crash’ scams

A new initiative by the Metropolitan Police to target ‘cash for crash’ insurance scams should be copied by other police forces, says AA Insurance. The Metropolitan Police has established a specialist unit to train officers to watch out for signs of suspicious collisions that could be staged accidents designed to defraud insurance companies for bogus personal [...]

The AA respond to Sir Peter North’s drink and dug driving review

Commenting on the statement issued today by Road Safety Minister Paul Clark MP on drink/drug driving, Edmund King, AA President, said: “Drink and drug driving have been flagged up in the top three issues of concern to motorists in an AA/Populus poll of 15,000 motorists last month. We welcome the fact that the Government will seek [...]

AA calls on governments to save five million lives on the world’s roads

The AA is calling on governments from around the world, who are meeting in Moscow at the first ever Global Ministerial Summit on Road Safety today (19 November), to agree plans for a Decade of Action which would save five million lives on the world’s roads. Road crashes are a growing epidemic and are set to [...]

Clampdown on Cowboy clampers

Cowboy clampers are going to be driven out of town, according to the AA President speaking at the British Parking Association “Parking Summit” today). The AA will reveal that the public and politicians are totally fed up with the bully boy tactics of clampers. An AA Populus poll of 100 MPs has found that 86% want [...]

AA applauds the scrapping of parking charges for hospital in-patients

Hospital parking charges to be dropped after AA campaignHospital car parking charges for in-patients are to be phased out over the next three years, Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, announced today after a campaign by the Automobile Association. Parking permits to allow friends and relatives to visit for free are to be introduced. Edmund King, the President [...]

People injured on the road could be three times greater than report figures show says the AA

The AA is delighted to see the decline in reported road death figures released today, and Britain’s return to joint top of the international road safety league table. “The suggestion that the real number of people injured on the road could be over three times the number recorded shows the enormity of the road safety problem, [...]

AA Insurance urges drivers to ‘Stay Insured’

AA Insurance welcomes the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) ‘Stay Insured’ campaign, which is aimed at drivers who may be thinking about letting their insurance lapse on renewal or cancel it because of financial difficulties. Simon Douglas, director of AA Insurance, says: “The MIB initiative focuses on the vital importance of keeping your car insurance up-to-date. Customers [...]

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