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Drivers set to make 14m leisure trips on the roads this bank holiday weekend

Drivers set to make 14m leisure trips on the roads this bank holiday weekend

More than 14m drivers are set to make leisure trips this bank holiday weekend – nearly 2m more than last year, data from the RAC suggests.
Saturday is expected to be the busiest ‘getaway’ day of the weekend on the roads, with the RAC’s research of 2,316 UK drivers* showing as many as 3.1m separate trips are due to be taken. Friday is forecast to be the next busiest with 2.8m trips planned, foll

Six-in-10 want ‘noise cameras’ rolled out so drivers of excessively loud vehicles are caught and fined

Six-in-10 want ‘noise cameras’ rolled out so drivers of excessively loud vehicles are caught and fined

Drivers want to see cameras that can automatically detect vehicles with illegally loud exhausts or whose engines are revved unnecessarily rolled out across the UK, according to new RAC research.
Six-in-10 drivers (58%) questioned by the RAC said they would be in favour of so-called ‘noise cameras’ being widely used once the findings of the Department for Transport’s £300,000 trials, which bega

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