About TyreSafe

The authority for tyre safety issues

At TyreSafe, a registered charity founded in 2006, our unwavering commitment is to make every road journey safer. We empower drivers across Britain with crucial knowledge about tyre maintenance, directly combating the dangers of illegal and poorly maintained tyres.

The evidence is clear: the consequences of tyre neglect are severe and widespread. In 2025, 201 people were killed or seriously injured in incidents involving defective tyres – 19% higher than 2024 and 28% higher than the 5-year average. Further highlighting the crisis, over 6 million tyres on UK roads have illegal tread annually. Each year, more than 2 million MOT failures are due to tyre defects, with a staggering one million deemed dangerous. And with 5,662 convictions in magistrate’s courts for defective tyres in 2025 alone, the legal ramifications are also significant. Shockingly, 1 in 5 motorway breakdowns stem from tyre issues, accounting for roughly 58,000 incidents in 2025.

Vision Zero & The Safe System Approach

TyreSafe seeks to target all road users and our approach is consistent with both the internationally recognised Vision Zero strategy, whose goal is eliminating all road deaths and serious injuries and the accepted principles of the ‘Safe Systems Approach’ which focuses on designing a forgiving road system that protects road users, even when mistakes are made.

Our ‘Vision Zero’ goal is to eliminate harm from illegal and poorly maintained tyres.

Our work

We educate and inform key target audiences, opinion formers, and policymakers on current legislation covering tyre safety, corporate responsibility, and duty of care in road safety.

Our campaigns and communications raise driver awareness of tyre safety issues and promote positive behavioural change among all road users.‌

Our strategy

For nearly two decades, TyreSafe has championed tyre safety awareness, consistently achieving its charitable goals of reducing tyre-related incidents. We utilise the internationally recognized “safe system” approach in all our ongoing campaigns.

To ensure the credibility of our campaign messages, we rely on data from trusted sources. This includes official datasets from government agencies like the Department for Transport (DfT), Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), National Highways, Police statistics (Stats 19), and the DVSA’s MOT data.

Furthermore, TyreSafe goes beyond existing data by collaborating with partners on unique research projects, which aim to fill crucial research gaps and develop even more effective tools for public engagement.

Driving Policy Change & Recognition

We tirelessly educate and champion critical policy changes including the integration of tyre defects as a priority offence in the National Roads Policing Strategy spearheaded by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC)

We are proud that the TyreSafe programme has been explicitly named in the Government’s 2026 Road Safety Strategy, where we will inform the development of a new National Work-Related Road Safety Charter to reduce risk for those who drive for work.

We are thrilled that tyre safety has been featured in RoSPA’s National Accident Prevention Strategy (NAPS), the first time it has been included in it’s century long history.

We regularly inform national policy through evidence-based responses to government consultations and by supporting strategic policy documents for leading bodies like the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS).

TyreSafe is a signatory to the European Commissions’ ‘European Road Safety Charter’ the United Nations ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety’ and twice winning the prestigious ‘Prince Michael International Road Safety Award’ – most recently in 2024.

Talking Road Safety Strategy with UKROEd

TyreSafe Chair, Stuart Lovatt, talks to UKROEd (United Kingdom Road Offender Education) about TyreSafe’s strategy of partnership and engagement to drive meaningful behavioural change and improve tyre safety in the UK.

Credit: UKROEd webinar 25th June 2025 and filmed at the TyreSafe Briefing at the National Motorcycle Museum on 10th June 2025