Stockport based C&C Insurance Brokers, preferred business partner to The Road Haulage Association (RHA) for provision of insurance to RHA Members, have issued a reminder to all drivers of heavy goods and commercial vehicles.
From this week, commercial vehicle drivers face larger fines, with careless driving now punishable with a fixed penalty notice (FPN) and graduated fixed penalties (GFP) for offences such as breaking drivers’ hours increased.
Described by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) as the largest change in traffic policing policy in decades, the move to make careless driving an offence punishable by FPN attracted plenty of headlines earlier this summer with the mainstream press emphasising £100 fines for middle-lane hoggers on the motorway.
Other examples of careless driving include:
• overtaking on the inside;
• driving inappropriately close to another vehicle;
• inadvertently driving through a red light;
• emerging from a side road into the path of another vehicle;
• tuning a car radio; when the driver was avoidably distracted by this action.
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