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 36