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It's official: lorries are safer than ever
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HE NUMBER of heavy oods vehicles involved in iccidents has slumped over he past 20 years, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley has revealed.
In a Commons reply to °ruler Shadow Transport mister Gwyneth Dun.00dy, who lost her shadow abinet place last week (see 10), Ridley told her that the umber of HGV involved in ccidents last year was 14,197, ompared with 31,148 in 1964.
The highest figure recorded in the five years between 1963 was 31,626 in 1965, compared with the lowest figure of 13,504 in 1983.
Even more impressive is the number of HGV involved in accidents per 100 million km travelled.
Compared with 1963, when it was 203 HGV in crashes involving personal injury per 100 million km, it was just 68 last year — a drop of twothirds.
And the number of vehicles involved in accidents has not fallen by anything near the same amount.
Between 1963 and 1968 the total number of vehicles involved in accidents causing injury varied between 420,000 and 484,000.
But in the five years to 1984 the figures ranged between 409,000 and 431,000.
Ridley acknowledged that the data collected only involved accidents where there was personal injury and details were not collected on causes of accidents or the lengths of journeys.