REGISTER YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THIS POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS POLICY
The Government are considering changing the MOT test to two yearly (it's every year now) with the first when cars are four years old. Government’s own research shows that:
- 400 or more people will die every year…
- Over 2,500 more people will be seriously injured…
- It will cost the country nearly a billion pounds…
This is dangerous and irresponsible. If you are alarmed at the prospect of our roads becoming even more dangerous with vehicles driving around with serious defects, please register your protest. As well as contributing to over 400 additional road deaths per year, there will be an additional net cost to the taxpayer in the costs of fatalities and injuries, PLUS the cost in human terms of sudden loss of jobs in the service and MOT industry.
There will also probably be additional costs of roadside vehicle checks when the inevitable lack of servicing causes a sudden increase in the number of dangerous vehicles on the roads, extra police time, road blockages and traffic hold-ups .
Help us to put a stop to this misguided proposal now: Register your protest with us; we will make sure the minister concerned receives your view.
Note: you don’t have to be a motorist to have concerns; that car careering across the road with broken suspension or badly worn tyres can kill pedestrians in a high street just as surely as motorists on a motorway if the failure occurs there.
By responding with this form, as well as making your own view known, you will also be underwriting the following statement:
"I, the undersigned, wish to register my protest against the potentially dangerous proposal to change the frequency of the UK MOT to after four years and every two years after that.
Government research carried out in November 2008 has indicated that over 400 extra deaths per year may be caused on the roads as a result of implementing this change.
The present Government should be taking measure to ensure that the roads in the UK will remain among the safest in the world, and this proposal should be scrapped immediately."