Pictured: John Kelly, CLM Managing Director
Some 62% of UK businesses that allow their employees to drive their own cars on company business carry out some form of check to mitigate the risk, with driver license checks the most common. But more than 16%, almost one in six, carry out no checks at all.
Meanwhile, smaller fleets are more likely to allow their employees to drive their own cars (93%) on company business than those with more than 100 cars (66%).
These are just some of the findings of a comprehensive new ‘grey fleet’ study by fleet management specialist, CLM, part of the Maxxia Group, which looked at how aware businesses of differing sizes were of ‘grey fleet‘ issues and how they approached them. (Ed. note: In the US, a 'grey fleet' is more commonly known as a 'reimbursed fleet.')
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New data collected from thousands of drivers suggest that more than half of all trips that ended in a crash also included some form of distraction from a mobile phone.
The data also found that in nearly a quarter of crashes, the driver was using a phone within a minute before the crash occurred, and perhaps even at the moment of the crash.
The data – collected by Cambridge Mobile Telematics from hundreds of thousands of drivers using its app – appear to strengthen the view that smartphones have made the nation’s highways more dangerous.
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