4 .1,THOUGH goods vehicles traffic rose by almost seven pier cent
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in the first quarter of this year, road casualties irnong truck and van users fell V eleven per cent.
These figures were revealed his week by the Department f the Environment. The staistics show that goods vehiles traffic (exceeding 30cwt nladen weight) hit a high oint between January and arch.
More than five-thousand : nillion vehicle kilometres ere travelled, an increase of me per cent on . the same period last year. Light vans ran the same distance and notched up a five per cent increase.
But total goods vehicles casualties (including vans) stood at 3,683, a drop of 11 per cent on the same period last year.
Bus and coach traffic increased by six per cent (although provisional figures for the second quarter show a decrease) and total casualties were down by 11 per cent.