Drivers are putting lives at risk by performing thousands of lethal motorway manoeuvres every year, a shocking new investigation has revealed.
Police forces revealed they had punished almost 18,000 dangerous driving offences on motorways in the past five and a half years, catching motorists making U-turns, driving the wrong way on slip roads, stopping in live lanes and using the driving in the hard shoulder.
The most common offence is making an unnecessary stop on a hard shoulder or emergency refuge area; officers issued 6,821 tickets for this between 2016 and mid 2021.
More worrying is that 165 people were caught driving in the wrong direction on a motorway and 270 reprimanded having been caught reversing against the flow of traffic.
Auto Express podcast: Aston Martin DBR1, driverless cars and the new Skoda Fabia
In this week’s Auto Express podcast Vicki Butler-Henderson and the team chat about the confusion surrounding self-driving cars
5 May 2021
Tune in to this week’s Auto Express podcast to hear Vicki Butler-Henderson and the team discuss when a self-driving car isn’t a self-driving car, and see whether the new Peugeot 508 SW Sport Engineered drives as well as it looks.
Plus associate editor Sean Carson and chief sub-editor Andy ‘Mosh’ Pringle mull over the finer details of everything from the affordable new Skoda Fabia to the distinctly less affordable Aston Martin V12 DBR1 Speedster, while Hugo Griffiths answers your burning consumer questions.
F1 presenter Will Buxton joins this week s Auto Express podcast
In this week’s Auto Express podcast Vicki Butler-Henderson and the team chat to F1 presenter Will Buxton about the 2021 season
28 Apr 2021
The voice of F1, Will Buxton, is the guest on this week’s Auto Express podcast. He speaks to Vicki Butler-Henderson to reveal his top tips for the 2021 championship and what it’s like to work on hit Netflix show, Drive to Survive. Vicki is joined by Sean Carson and Hugo Griffiths, and the team discuss the week’s biggest news stories, and more of your motoring questions are answered. Listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
We think it’s fair to say that 2020 has been something of a global ‘annus horribilis’, bringing huge challenges and restricting everyone s opportunity to get out and about.
However, our staffers here at Auto Express are a dynamic, creative bunch, and it’s safe to say there’s never a dull moment. So, despite its meddling with our carefully drawn up plans, this year has still managed to provide some great experiences for the whole team.
From bagging the latest news scoop, to testing the mettle of the new Land Rover Defender in the harsh Namibian desert, and even finding the time to launch an all-new website, we’ve covered the lot this year - and enjoyed every minute.