Raising your family in Brighton is a dream: warm weather, beautiful beaches and proximity to London’s thriving cultural scene, which is less than two hours’ drive almost due north. But there are always factors to take into account to ensure the safety and well-being of your family: and your car is one of those things that can be a real boon to your family, or it can be an active danger, especially if it is not well-maintained. Let’s take a look at why your family car needs an MOT for your safety, and that of other road users too.
MOT Serves a Purpose
Your MOT test is not just a pointless piece of legislation or a money-making drive by the DVLA. Instead, it is a roadworthiness check, designed to ensure that all the cars on the UK’s busy road network are in good condition whenever they are using the public highways. In the 1960s, it became a massive problem that as the road networks were expanding and the first motorways were being built, the first flight of privately owned vehicles were beginning to deteriorate into an unsafe state. This saw a sharp spike in road accidents, many of which had severe consequences given that vehicles in those days did not have crumple zones or air-bags to protect drivers and their passengers. The MOT test, once introduced and perfected, had a positive impact almost immediately, and today, despite having many miles of high-speed roadways, the UK’s safety record is one of the best in the world. If your car is older than three years old and the MOT is due, you can get your car MOT in Brighton from KAP Motors.
What MOT Inspectors Check
MOT inspectors check out about forty items which range from making sure your emissions are in line with environmental standards to your brakes to your visibility – if you cannot see all around you (and be seen in turn) the risk of an accident shoots up! You can find the whole checklist online and read up to see what the inspector will look for in your vehicle. Keep going back to the list, annually, as new items are added all the time as safety concerns are raised and accounted for.
How MOT Keeps You Safe
Not only will your MOT certificate prove that you are legally compliant with the rules of the road, but it will ensure that your car is unlikely to suddenly break down on you as you are travelling along. But more than this: knowing that every car on the road is either in nearly new condition or has been MOT tested to ensure it is of a good safety standard means that the likelihood of others breaking down, disrupting traffic and perhaps causing accidents when inattentive drivers don’t react in time to avoid them is also vastly reduced. In this way, the MOT tests work to ensure that not only are you safe on the roads, but everyone’s car and family are safe as they travel – a network of protection that effortlessly covers all road users.
