The Car Hub

Even though the UK emergency budget is not until Tuesday 22nd June the RAC motoring organisation are reporting they have seen a document which warns of increased deaths on the roads if road safety partnerships are to be scrapped because of public spending cuts.
The new spending cuts are expected to result in no new fixed speed cameras, possible reduction of existing speed camera numbers, traffic policing reduced and also civilian camera operators and speed awareness courses severely cut back.

Today the 4th. February it has been announced by the government that the car scrappage scheme will be extended for the second time to the end of March, this is due to the last tranche of the £400 million set aside for the scheme not being taken up by buyers.
Three months ago The Car Hub team had once again clearly stated that they continued to oppose the government scrappage scheme as it brought little benefit to the UK.

2010 is not starting out to be a good year for Japanese car makers.
Today Honda announced they are recalling 172,000 Jazz models in the U.K.  over concern to the master power window switch, this follows an incident in S. Africa when a child was killed in a car fire.

A report by the UK Automobile Association (AA) due out this week is expected to reveal that young drivers car insurance has increased by 14% in the last 3 months  of 2009 alone.
It’s not only young drivers who are getting hit in the their wallet, the parents of young drivers who are in the age bracket 40-49  years who decide to add their children onto their car policies have also been knocked with a 11% increase over the same period.

Once again it’s a case of “now you see it, now you don’t”; we’re talking here about electric car manufacturing subsidies.
We again have a case of our government making all the correct press statements and TV announcements stating their full support for this new  developing car sector but then we find there are severe restrictions on what they are saying.

Here in the south of the UK we had our first taste of winter snow yesterday so perhaps it’s a suitable time for some reminders to help make driving safer at this time of year.