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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Will Durrant

Minister seeks to ease road safety concerns over brighter LED headlights

Traffic in the fog (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Archive)

Motorists are “feeling the strain” of brighter headlights “more than ever before”, campaigners have said after a transport minister sought to ease road safety concerns.

Lilian Greenwood, asked for the Department for Transport’s assessment of the safety of LED headlights, said statistics “do not show any discernible trend to suggest that advances in lighting technology are contributing negatively” to road vehicle collisions.

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