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• As manager of driver training at the Royal Society
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for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), and treasurer of the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers, Gordon Asbury has an unrivalled knowledge of Britain's road safety record.
It came as a pleasant revelation last week, therefore, when he said, "I deplore the constant bickering about trucks and truckers that seems to be fuelled and perpetuated by the media. Why is it that in radio traffic reports they always mention it when a goods vehicle is involved in an incident? Put in the way they do, fosters the resentment of the listening public to the lorry driver."
"Perhaps one day," says Asbury, "when we have all developed a greater understanding of each others' problems and exercise more tolerance and patience we may hear a radio traffic report that says, 'There will be considerable delays to traffic on the southbound carriageway of the Al at Newark due to a multiple collision involving 14 cars. The accident happened when the first of the group of cars braked to enter the Happy Eater and the following cars, travelling too close to each other, were unable to stop. The accident was reported by several lorry drivers who passed the incident in the nearside lane which was empty at the time.' "