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HGV deaths fall
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• The number of deaths in accidents involving heavy goods vehicles has fallen 26% in the ten years to 2001, according to a new government report.
The Department for Transport's report Focus on Freight 2003 says that in 1991 there were 782 deaths involving trucks; this fell to 575 in 2001, despite an increase in freight traffic.
Over the same period, the number of people killed or seriously injured in accidents involving FIGVs fall by 29%.
The NT says that while trucks tend to have lower accident involvement rates than most types of road vehi cle, the level of injury tends to be greater where they are involved. Over the last ten years, deaths in accidents involving HGVs have represented around one in six of all road deaths.
Road safety campaign group Brake welcomes the news. Policy officer Ben Wheatley says: This shows the benefit of many freight operators putting health and safety policies in place to protect their drivers and other road users.
"However, still more needs to be done. The government Should be giving advice to hauliers on how to do this to make the roads even safer,"