Ban on aged tyres takes effect

The eight-year campaign to drive age-compromised tyres from UK roads reached its conclusion today, with amendments to Construction and Use Regulations now prohibiting the use of tyres more than ten years old on the front steered axles of lorries, buses, coaches or on any minibus single wheel axle.

This change was championed by Frances Molloy, whose son Michael was one of three people killed in a coach crash in 2012 that was caused by the failure of a 19 year old tyre. Molloy, founder of the Tyred campaign, shared on Twitter this morning: “For my beautiful son Michael who I desperately yearn to hold every single day. For Kerry Ogden and Colin Daulby. We did it!”