The RAC Foundation has received almost half a million pounds of government funding to pilot new ways of investigating road crashes. The £480,000 will be spent helping selected police forces to rec

Learner drivers are to be allowed onto Britain's motorways. Anybody under instruction will now be able to take to the country's busiest road at the discretion of, and accompanied by, a qualified driving instructor.

Given the renewed focus on Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) – for example, in February 2018 the Prime Minister promised in the House of Commons to ask the Department for Transport to revisit the subject - the RAC Foundation has used the latest available road safety data to update previous estimates, published in 2014, of the potential casualty and collision reductions GDL might bring.

The number of penalty tickets issued to drivers parking on private land has surged by almost a million in just 12 months to a new high, the latest official data suggests. RAC Foundation analysis of

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is still the most common ultra-low emission car on the UK’s roads. At the end of 2017 – the latest data available - there were 32,048 of the plug-in hybrid version

The number diesel cars licensed in Great Britain stood at 12.4 million at the end of 2017. The figures – released today by the Department for Transport – show that this was a 3.3% increase on t

The very poorest car-owning households have seen their expenditure on motoring jump by 37% in a year. RAC Foundation analysis of previously unreleased data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests that just over a million car-owning households in the lowest of the ONS’s ten income brackets (the poorest 10%) spent an average of £58.20 per week on motoring in 2016-17.