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• The police, haulage groups, motoring organisations and tyre distributors will meet next month to seek a way of avoiding accidents at the scene of motorway breakdowns.
The move follows the death of a lorry driver who was acting as lookout while a tyre was being replaced.
"The police are always saying they prefer to attend accidents," says Richard Edy, director of the National Tyre Distributors Association (NTDA). "We don't think it is reasonable not to attend breakdowns because their resources are limited if they then turn up in numbers once the accident at the scene of a breakdown has taken place."
NTDA is driving forward talks between groups such the Freight Transport Association, Road Haulage Association, Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators, the AA and RAC. They all have their own codes of practice.