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Longer lorry safety research doesn’t stand up to scrutiny

Philippa Edmunds - Freight on Rail manager, London N1
15 July 2011
 

The most shocking aspect of the Government’s case for longer lorries is the distortion of safety statistics, which leads to the conclusion that longer lorries would lead to a zero increase in fatalities by assuming that 85% of collisions involving HGVs are unaffected by length. For example, in relation to fatal crashes within 20 metres of a junction, one of the largest categories, 99% were assumed to be outside the scope of the report (TRL PPR526).

These conclusions are not credible as...

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