Drivers issued warning over big change coming into force within days

By Christopher Sharp, News Reporter

Motorists person been warned the chances of an mishap could emergence this play (Image: Getty)

Drivers are being warned astir a imaginable summation successful the likelihood of an mishap erstwhile the clocks spell backmost this weekend.

On October 27, the UK volition determination from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time. Ahead of this, the AA’s Accident Assist squad has warned that this could spot an summation successful accidents.

The crushed for the informing comes aft the organisation saw an 11 percent emergence successful the fig of accidents successful the 2 weeks aft the clocks moved backmost past year.

The informing comes arsenic wintertime approaches and with it longer nights, colder temperatures, wetter days and arsenic a effect much treacherous driving conditions.

Conditions successful the wintertime are usually trickier than they are successful the summertime (Image: Getty)

Speaking to Auto Express astir the matter, Assist managing manager Tim Rankin warned that the statistic “are wide that erstwhile the clocks autumn back, we spot a emergence successful the fig of crashes”.

As a effect of the alleged nexus betwixt the clocks going backmost and car crashes, assemblage timepiece adept Dr Gisela Helfer said it was clip to extremity the practice.

She explained that “quite a fewer studies person present looked astatine a correlation betwixt the timepiece alteration and things similar bosom attacks and car accidents”.

The University of Bradford world added that the clocks going backmost is nary longer necessary, expanding: “Clock changes were brought successful primitively to prevention wealth but determination is presently nary request to bash this. I would reason it is clip to extremity the signifier of changing the clocks doubly a year.”

Dr Helfer’s comments and warnings implicit the clocks going backmost travel a survey which provided immoderate affirmative quality for motorists connected however they tin prevention wealth during a cost of living crisis.

One of the biggest yearly expenses for regular drivers is the depletion of fuel, the little substance idiosyncratic tin usage implicit a twelvemonth the much wealth they tin theoretically save. One of the champion ways to bash this is to hypermile.

Hypermiling is the enactment of driving slower to usage fuel, truthful alternatively than bash 70mph connected the motorway, idiosyncratic mightiness thrust astatine 60mph instead. According to a survey by Mythbusters, this tin summation substance ratio by astir 70 percent.

Despite the efficacity of hypermiling the website Hypermiler said this should lone beryllium done successful the close conditions. They warned: “Hypermiling, arsenic with immoderate different signifier of driving technique, tin beryllium unsafe if utilized connected the incorrect roadworthy and successful unsuitable postulation conditions.

“Please ever beryllium alert of different roadworthy users and bash not endanger yourself oregon others for the involvement of redeeming a fewer miles per gallon.”