Press releases

Leading independent road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has welcomed confirmation of the Government’s plan to allow learner drivers on motorways to improve safety, saying they are long overdue and should make a significant difference to accident rates amongst new and inexperienced drivers.

The UK’s biggest road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has had its accreditation to the ISO 39001 Road Traffic Safety management standard renewed, having first achieved it back in 2015.

After the completion of its ‘Get Into The Driving Seat’ recruitment competition, IAM RoadSmart has announced that David Gallagher will be its next Younger Driver Ambassador for 2017/18.

The UK’s biggest road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has appointed Tony Greenidge as its new Business Development Director, with him taking on his role this week.

IAM RoadSmart is doing its bit to reduce the numbers of crashes in some of the worst accident areas of the UK, by offering free one-to-one expert driving tuition locally to drivers in Portsmouth and Southampton – before the scheme is rolled out nationwide.

Making speeding as unacceptable as drink driving still seems a long way off given the results of today’s speed compliance statistics from the Department of Transport (1). While 96% of drivers rate drink driving unacceptable (2), 81% of cars are exceeding 20mph speed limits on a regular basis.

As IAM RoadSmart announces that its Drink Drive Rehabilitation Scheme course has been approved for delivery in key areas of the North of England in what is another mark of the organisation’s increasing influence on road safety in the UK, Lesley Upham announces her tenure as Commercial Director for the charity will come to a close at the end of July.

Around two-thirds of UK road users would support a scrappage scheme for older diesel cars, vans and lorries in an effort to get the worst polluting vehicles off our roads, according to a survey by IAM RoadSmart.

We all know it’s impossible to find the ideal Father’s Day gift year after year, as a cupboard of socks, dressing gowns, gardening gloves and car shampoo will testify … so how about the gift that keeps on giving – IAM RoadSmart’s Advanced Driver or Rider Course?

IAM RoadSmart has launched the first of a series of giveaways this summer offering drivers a complimentary 60 minute expert-led taster session across most of the UK as of today.

IAM RoadSmart, the UK’s biggest independent road safety charity, has today launched its own manifesto calling on all road safety professionals with one simple message: “Work together to reduce the numbers of people killed and seriously injured on the UK’s roads.”

The deadline is fast approaching … have you entered the IAM RoadSmart competition to become the charity’s Younger Driver Ambassador yet?

Swinton Insurance has teamed up with leading road safety charity IAM RoadSmart to create a website offering safety and guidance tips for bikers as the summer riding season starts.

Leading road safety charity IAM RoadSmart is offering the ‘ultimate internship’ for one lucky individual in 2017-8 – but they will have to prove their worth for the high-profile role in a rigorous panel-style grilling to earn the coveted slot!

As IAM RoadSmart’s well-regarded Mature Driver Assessment undergoes its own mid-life makeover, the charity is offering the chance to win an exclusive lunch at Silverstone Circuit with its Mature Driver Ambassador, renowned rally and racing driver Paddy Hopkirk MBE.

Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart and Auto Express, the UK’s biggest-selling car magazine, teamed up to find out which are the deadliest behind-the-wheel distractions with programming a sat-nav found to be the worst.

When three-year-old Felix Behan saw his dad wearing his new IAM RoadSmart polo shirt, the youngster proved he was a chip off the old block by asking for his own version of the road charity’s official shirt.

Leading road safety charity IAM RoadSmart and participating local groups across the country are embarking on a major free giveaway to riders to coincide with the start of spring.

With one-third of all road crashes still involving vehicles driven on business (reference 1) leading road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has produced a short video highlighting the issue.

IAM RoadSmart has expressed concern that cars with growing levels of autonomy could make motorists lazy and over reliant on gadgets – with far reaching implications for the potential reduction of people killed and seriously injured on the roads.