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Shell's two strikes and you're out' policy on seat-belt wearing

16th October 2003
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for HGV drivers in its UK tanker fleet is working, helped by the belts' red webbing to make them more visible.

Professor Jac Wismans, head of R&D at the TNO Crash-Safety Research Centre, revealed that work under the APROSYS Advanced Protection System project could include the development of a sensor-based system which could detect when an overtaking vehicle has pulled out into the path of an on-coming vehicle and automatically apply its brakes.

Semis boss Leif Ostling reports that interest in running a Scandinavianstyle 25.25m-long threeaxle rigid and 13.6m semi-trailer outfit has already been expressed by Denmark, Holland, France, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. He predicts that a 25/25 rig would provide 50% more load per single vehicle while using 20% less fuel and producing 20% less CO? per tonne than two conventional artics.