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Thousands of British motorists are failing to maintain essential road safety systems on their vehicles and thereby endangering themselves and other road users around them. Data from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, reveals nearly 20,000 cars failed their MoT due to faulty or defective Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) between April 2014 and March 2015. The fitment of TPMS became mandatory on all new passenger vehicles on 1st January 2015 and is designed to help drivers ensure their tyre pressures are correct while driving. TyreSafe, the UK’s not-for-profit tyre safety organisation, is urging all drivers to regularly check their TPMS is fully functional to reduce risks of tyre-related incidents on the roads. TPMS provides drivers with information on their tyre pressures while the vehicle is being driven. It does this by either using individual sensors mounted to the valve inside the tyre, sending data wirelessly to the control unit, or by calculating the pressure usi...

Following the conclusion of  Tyre Safety Month 2016 , TyreSafe is reminding drivers Don’t chance it – check it throughout the year. While the number of reported casualties caused by tyre-related defects fell in 2015, on average over 1000 people a year are killed or injured from such incidents. In fact, that average number of casualties is higher than for faulty brakes and nearly double that for incidents causing injury where the driver’s use of a mobile phone was a contributory factor. To help reduce this number of casualties on the roads, TyreSafe is urging drivers to carry out regular tyre checks. Even though the need to perform many of what were once routine car maintenance checks has declined as vehicles have become more reliable, tyres still need to be regularly inspected. They are in direct physical contact with the road and all the potentially damaging objects which often litter them – even new tyres lose pressure over time. Yet, despite this, one-in-five drivers hav...