The numbers of reported personal injury road accidents involving (a) British Heavy Goods Vehicles and (b) foreign registered Heavy Goods Vehicles in Great Britain resulting in fatalities and injuries are:
British HGV1 Foreign registered HGV1 Fatalities Injuries2 Fatalities Injuries2 2005 407 9,428 27 1,071 2006 365 9,146 31 1,010 1 HGV = Heavy Goods Vehicle over 3.5 tonnes maximum permissible weight gross vehicle weight (gvw). 2 Injury = serious and slight injury. Note: Where there are accidents involving both British and foreign registered vehicles, they will appear in each of their categories.
Prior to 2005, it was not possible to identify foreign registered Heavy Goods Vehicles separately.