Strathclyde Tyres Blog

One in five (18%) motorists have driven cars without a valid MOT certificate, according to research from Britannia Rescue. Two thirds of these say they did so unknowingly because they had forgotten to check the renewal date on the certificate. A third say they were aware at the time and drove the car anyway.

If you are caught driving a car without a valid MOT, you can be given three penalty points, be fined up to £1,000 and invalidate the car's insurance.

Tyre safety organisation TyreSafe is reminding drivers that they could reduce the amount they are spending on fuel simply by making sure that their tyres are correctly inflated.

According to TyreSafe, apart from improved safety and the reduced risk of experiencing a dangerous blowout, correctly inflated tyres provide lower running costs. This is because the rolling resistance of an under-inflated tyre increases, meaning that a bigger force or more energy is needed to make it turn.

The number of drivers over the age of 80 has now topped one million, according to information obtained by the IAM, following a freedom of information request to the DVLA.

The DVLA figures show that there are now 1,012,399 drivers over 80. There are also 122 licence holders over the age of 100, including three 105 year olds, and one 106 year old woman.