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Lorries: Accidents

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many and what percentage of reported motorway traffic incidents involved a heavy goods vehicle with left-hand drive in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007; and what percentage of those incidents were attributed to poor visibility or blind spots on such vehicles. (220553)

The number and percentage of reported personal injury motorway traffic accidents involving a left-hand drive heavy goods vehicle and the percentage of these accidents where the heavy goods vehicle had ‘vehicle blind spot’ as a contributory factor are shown in the table.

2005

2006

2007

Number of motorway injury accidents involving at least one left-hand drive heavy goods vehicle (HGV)

593

513

470

Percentage of all motorway injury accidents involving at least one left-hand drive HGV

7

6

6

Percentage of motorway injury accidents involving at least one left-hand drive HGV where the HGV had ‘vehicle blind spot’ as a contributory factor

40

40

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