Summer Tyre Security Checks

In our petty tourist trap corner of Dorset, nosotros are very accustomed to heavier traffic on the roads at this fourth dimension of year. Coupled with the current heatwave, checking your tyres earlier setting off is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than important.

As the summertime holidays gather with multiple route user groups accept to setting off on planned travels, Continental is urging motorists to hold out prepared for trips abroad or equally business office of the staycation trend, stressing the importance of tyre security for all motorists.

As a corporate partner of TyreSafe, the Britain route security charity, Continental is supporting its summertime stimulate to enhance awareness of the demand for driver diligence over the summer. In the UK, a 3rd of all tyre related incidents tumble out during the summer. With 57% of Britons 'staycationing' inward the Britain this year, TyreSafe aims to minimise tyre caused accidents – helping the Britain world bask the sunshine this summer. Department for Transport information shows inward the calendar month of July tyre-related incidents are at their highest.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 combination of factors, from unexpected bad atmospheric condition together with drivers unfamiliar amongst province roads, to long journeys amongst fully-laden cars, agency that summertime driving carries amongst it a position out of additional risks.

Mark Griffiths, security goodness at Continental Tyres, said:

"As business office of our Vision Zero first which aims for null accidents, injuries or fatalities on our roads – nosotros are dandy to brand motorists aware of the small-scale steps they tin ambit the sack accept to brand their journeying safer this summer.
"With a piece of goodness weather, it is tardily to larn a petty complaisant inward a way motorists mightiness non hold out inward the wintertime when they are braced for rain, snowfall together with ice.
"It is vital that, whatsoever the season, people remain alarm to changes inward conditions together with ensure that their tyres are inward operate past times condition.
"With school's right away broken upwards for the holidays, together with to a greater extent than than one-half of Britons planning on taking their 2018 summertime vacation inward the UK, these uncomplicated checks tin ambit the sack assist cut back the conduct chances of an unwanted disruption."

While temperature records own got been broken this year, inward the Britain it rains an average 156.2 days of the year, pregnant drivers conduct chances beingness caught off-guard when braking inward a critical situation. On summertime tyres, braking distances on moisture roads at 60mph growth past times equally much equally 15m – making it vital that drivers remain vigilant, checking they own got adequate tread depth together with right inflation.