I’m criticised by some Scottish chief constable one day for encouraging people to drive fast and then lambasted by Welsh assembly members for saying public transport is for poor people. Which it is. My crime is simple. I like cars

As I drove down the M20 into Kent last Monday, I noticed that most of the speed cameras had been burnt out by vandals. This is disgusting. It is ridiculous, criminal and stupid that the person who savaged these life-saving devices should target the M20... and then stop. Why did you not keep right on going? I can think of six cameras on my way home that would be immeasurably improved with a spot of petrol and a match

With 6,000 speed cameras nestling in every bush and parked van, they will not stop until they’ve got the accident rate down to zero. Which will be never

Lycra Nazis have already taken over a third of the roads with their green tarmac cycle lanes, now they want to take over the whole lot

A third of all those injured and killed on the roads are young men, aged in a startlingly narrow band from 17 and 19. Drowning in testosterone, and filled with a youthful sense of immortality, being 17 is dangerous. It always has been. The fact is, you simply can’t make a 17-year-old see sense

In London, drivers do 42m kilometres each year while lost, and that’s the same as driving from New York to Los Angeles 9,200 times. Needlessly

There are many rules for the elderly in the [Highway Code]. I have one too. And here it is. Get a bloody move on

It’s this obsession everyone has got with speed now that speed kills – it doesn’t. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you

A general rule of thumb. If a car has less than 100 horsepower, it is never safe to pull into the outside lane if there is a car in sight... even if it’s three miles away. If a car has less than 60 horsepower, it is never safe to pull into the outside lane at all’