Labour to chase bosses
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• Hauliers who contribute to fatal accidents by forcing their drivers to spend too many hours behind the wheel could face corporate manslaughter charges under a Labour government.
Clare Short, Labour's new transport spokesperson, is to study how criminal charges could be introduced.
If Short believes the scheme is feasible she is expected to include it in her transport policy document which is due to go in front of the Labour Party policy forum in May.
"Certainly the concept of cor
porate manslaughter should be implemented for cowbo. employers in the case of lorry driver tiredness," says Short's office.
The document is expected to repeat many of the aims of her predecessor, Michael Meacher, including the desire to produce an integrated transport system which will transfer freight from road to rail.
However, rail privatisation is Labour's priority as it fights the sell-off of British Rail's freight businesses and the passenger franchises.