Road charity Brake is joining forces with other organisations to defend the annual MOT test in the face of a government review that could reduce the frequency.
The charity cites the 2008 DfT report that predicted a frequency change could result in 250 more road deaths each year and 2,200 serious injuries . As a result, it has got behind the ‘ProMOTe’ an industry campaign spearheaded by Halfords to raise awareness of the proposed changes.
Julie Townsend, Deputy Chief Exec at Brake, says: "As a charity supporting families whose lives are devastated by road death and injury, we are aghast that the Government is considering such an appalling backwards step. We should be doing everything we can to stop people being killed and injured on roads, to prevent families suffering so terribly, and to reduce the economic burden of these casualties. That means having a robust system to ensure vehicles are roadworthy.”
“Downgrading the system so MOTs are only required every two years is a nonsensical and inhumane policy that would mean many more needless tragedies."
There is still no word from the DfT when the MOT review might begin.